Preeclampsia is the most common hypertensive disease of pregnancy, affecting 5-8% of pregnancies (Saftlas et al., 1990) and accounting for nearly 18% of maternal deaths (ACOG, 2002) in the United States. Little change has been noted in the incidence of this disease in the United States during the national data-collection periods of 19931997 and 2001-2005 (Berg et al., 2009). Preeclampsia is als...

--Study Objective: To demonstrate the safety of minimally invasive surgical treatment of 8 – 13 cm adnexal masses felt to be benign, to confirm the negative predictive value of ACOG Committee Opinion 280 for selecting women whose adnexal masses are unlikely to be malignant and, based on these data, to advocate for acceptance of a new treatment algorithm featuring Minimally Invasive Surgery in t...

A number of medical and public policies are recommended in the revised statement on surrogate motherhood by the Committee on Ethics of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), 1 which expands and replaces the original committee opinion of 1983. Some of the implications with respect to the physician-patient relationship have been laid out in the updated statement, whereas ...

During pregnancy the most common metabolic complication is diabetes [1]. The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) has recommended that each pregnancy be tested at 24 – 28 weeks for gestational diabetes by a two-step method (1-hour glucose assessment followed by a 3-hour glucose tolerance test (GTT) when necessary) [2]. The standard of care for those with an elevated 1-hour test ...

Fetal growth restriction, also known as intrauterine growth restriction, is a common complication of pregnancy that has been associated with a variety of adverse perinatal outcomes. There is a lack of consensus regarding terminology, etiology, and diagnostic criteria for fetal growth restriction, with uncertainty surrounding the optimal management and timing of delivery for the growth-restricte...

Background: Sepsis is one of the most important causes of death in infants. The pattern of bacterial agents responsible for neonatal septicemia changes over time. The main aim of the present study was to provide a clinical guideline adapted for treatment of neonatal sepsis based on the frequency of microbial agents in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Alzahra Hospital, Tabriz, Iran.Meth...