PURPOSE To test the feasibility and acceptability of a caring-based nurse home visit intervention for women pregnant after perinatal loss (PAL), the goal of which was to provide a safe, supportive environment, normalize the pregnancy after loss, reduce anxiety and depression through stress reduction skills, and facilitate prenatal attachment. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS This mixed methods study ...

This review is a perinatal pathologist’s approach to the stillbirth with emphasis on the use of molecular techniques. Stillbirths are a heterogeneous group, with diverse aetiologies. The stillbirth investigation needs to be based on a good review of the history, antenatal scans, the autopsy, placental examination and ancillary investigations. Often a multidisciplinary team is required to identi...

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background: the aim of this study was to evaluate maternal and perinatal outcomes in preeclampsia (pe), according to the value of albumin.materials and methods: preeclamptic women were retrospectively divided into mild hypoproteinemia (mhp, n = 220) and severe hypoproteinemia (shp, n = 79) pe according to the value of albumin. the maternal and perinatal outcomes were evaluated in both groups. r...

background: using spatial analysis tools to determine the spatial patterns of china province-level perinatal mortality and using spatial econometric model to examine the impacts of health care resources and different socio-economic factors on perinatal mortality. methods: the global moran’s i index is used to examine whether the spatial autocorrelation exists in selected regions and moran’s i s...

The paralysing feelings of grief after perinatal loss can cause an overwhelming feeling of being abandoned, creating confusion, disorientation and hopelessness, altering future pregnancies for parents, children alive at the time and those that follow. Research with parents’ pregnant following loss, elderly bereaved parents with no intervention, and children born after loss, some now adults, sho...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the involvement of alterations of the central autonomic nervous system, particularly of the brainstem and cerebellum, in a wide set of victims of sudden and unexplained perinatal and infant death. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study population consisted of 63 stillbirths, 28 neonatal deaths and 140 suspected SIDS. The victims were subjected to in-depth anatomopathological exa...

background: asphyxia is a medical condition in which placental or pulmonary gas exchange is impaired or they cease all together, typically producing a combination of progressive hypoxemia and hypercapnea. objective: in addition to regional differences in its etiology; it is important to know its risk factors. materials and methods: this is a case-control study, all neonates born from may 2002 t...

Perinatal outcome of pregnancies at forty and over was analyzed starting from the diagnosis of pregnancy to seven days following delivery. Retrospectively, pre-gestational health and reproduction status were dealt with, as well as the course of pregnancy, deliveries, and newborn children (study group). The control group was composed of pregnant women aged 20 to 29, who were identical to study g...