Background. Due to many physiological changes during pregnancy, interpretation of thyroid function tests needs trimester-specific reference intervals for a specific population. There is no normative data documented for thyroid hormones on healthy pregnant women in Iran. The present survey was conducted to determine trimester-specific reference ranges for serum TSH, thyroxine (TT4), and triiodot...

The majority of the information on the effects of in utero exposure to chemotherapy has been derived from retrospective case reports and series. Overviews of the available data have concluded that the timing of chemotherapy exposure (first trimester versus second and third trimesters) as well as the chemotherapeutic agent or agents used affect the risk of spontaneous abortion and miscarriage as...

Objectives This study investigated the relationship between sleep quality during pregnancy and preterm birth. Methods longitudinal was conducted August 2018 May 2019. The participants were 150 pregnant women who had been referred to 7 healthcare centers in city of Qazvin, Iran met inclusion criteria. Petersburg Sleep Quality Index, Epworth Sleepiness Scale, 2 questions about daytime status a de...

Termination of pregnancy in the second and early third trimesters has always been a common challenge in obstetrical practice. In the United States dilation and evacuation in the second w x trimester is preferred 1 , while in the United w x Kingdom prostaglandin analogues are favored 2 . Between November 1995 and June 1998, 43 consecutive pregnant women underwent termination of pathological preg...

OBJECTIVE To describe the course of migraine without aura and migraine with aura during pregnancy and factors that could influence its course, among migraine sufferers before pregnancy. METHOD A cross sectional study undertaken at the IMIP, Brazil. Out of 686 consecutively assisted women, at the first postnatal week, 266 were identified as migraine sufferers before pregnancy. RESULTS There ...

background & aim: the incidence of acute burn injuries in pregnant women is very low. burn injuries during pregnancy are often associated with a high rate of fetal and maternal mortality and morbidity. in this study, we aimed to review the cases of acute burn during pregnancy and evaluate the outcome of these patients in mashhad, iran. methods:this retrospective study was performed using the me...

Context Malaria in pregnancy has devastating consequences for mother and fetus. WHO recommends intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) with treatment doses of an efficacious antimalarial during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy at predefined intervals. Sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine is currently recommended, but high-level parasite resistance threatens its efficacy. Recent t...

Free thyroxin (FT4) concentrations, total thyroxin/thyroxin-binding globulin (T4/TBG) ratios, and thyrotropin (TSH) and albumin concentrations were measured in serum in a longitudinal study in each of the three trimesters of 25 normal pregnancies. In late pregnancy, FT4 estimates by assays reputedly either affected or unaffected by albumin were in the lower half of the reference range for nonpr...

Carbohydrate is one of the nutrients that needed during pregnancy. Increased demand pregnancy causes pregnant women to consume carbohydrates in excess, which occurs due emotional eating. The increment eating assumed be triggered by insufficient sleep duration and poor quality. This study was aimed investigate role as mediator relationship between quality with carbohydrate intake among women. ap...