This study was performed to achieve abortion in a short time and with minimum side effects in a bitch, as an alternative method for termination of unwanted pregnancy. The experimentation was performed on 10 privately owned crossbred pregnant bitches, in their late second trimester of pregnancy, having a variable number of fetuses (3 to 9). Fetal death was induced by transabdominal intracardiac ...

Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) is associated to unpredictable fetal risks. The mechanisms underlying poor perinatal outcomes are unknown. Intracranial fetal hemorrhage is a possible complication of ICP. A young patient presented with mild ICP and severe transaminases elevation, at 32 weeks of pregnancy. Ultrasound revealed fetal ventriculomegalia probably secondary to intracranial ...

Predicting pregnancy complications is a major topic for clinicians and biologists for maternal and fetal monitoring. Noninvasive biomarkers in maternal blood such as circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) are promising molecules to predict pregnancy disorders. miRNAs are noncoding short RNAs that regulate mRNA expression by repressing the translation or cleaving the transcript. miRNAs are released to t...

Great advances in ultrasound instrumentation have enabled the physician to delineate subtle intrauterine changes. Not only can specific measurements of the fetal body be obtained but tissue textures within fetal organs can be appreciated. The perinatologist is constantly searching for ways to learn more about the fetus, and ultrasound has clearly become a major implement in this search. The fol...

A significantly greater rise in carboxyhaemoglobin concentration in response to smoking a single cigarette was shown in pregnant (3-9% increase) as opposed to non-pregnant (2-1% increase) women. This was more pronounced when anaemia was present (5-0% increase) and appeared to be inversely related to the haemoglobin concentration. We suggest that the risks to the fetus may be particularly increa...

Estriol accounts for an average of 74% of the principal Kober-positive steroids in the urine of 13 women during uncomplicated pregnancies. This proportion is independent of the stage of pregnancy, from 20 weeks until term. The average ratio of estriol to ring-D a#{149}ketols (mainly 16ahydroxyestrone and 16-ketoestradiol-17) is about 5:1 over the same period. In 17 pregnant women with diabetes,...

OBJECTIVE We explored the association between clinical parameters at admission and the subsequent development of major maternal complications or adverse infant outcome in women with hypertensive complications of pregnancy remote from term. STUDY DESIGN We drew data from a randomized trial of temporizing management in 216 patients with hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelets syndr...

We present the neonatal complications of two premature newborn infants whose placentas demonstrated placental thrombosis in the fetal circulation. Both mothers presented with a 3-day history of decreased fetal movements before delivery. The first infant presented with thrombocytopenia and disseminated intravascular coagulation. The second infant had extended bilateral extended hemorrhagic venou...

Although erythropoietin plays a significant role in human metabolism, relatively little attention has been devoted in scientific literature to its role and mechanisms regulating its secretion in pregnancy. The authors of this article discussed the following issues: - construction, biological role and regulation of erythropoietin secretion, - its extra-hematologic effect, - erythropoietin concen...