BACKGROUND Despite the pregnancy complications related to home births, homes remain yet major place of delivery in Pakistan and 65 percent of totals births take place at home. This work analyses the determinants of place of delivery in Pakistan. METHODS Multivariate Logistic regression is used for analysis. Data are extracted from Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (2006-07). Based on inf...

Chorangioma of the placenta is a rare tumor with a frequency of about 1%, which usually presents as a solitary nodule or, less frequently, as multiple nodules. It is found on the fetal surface of the placenta or in placental parenchyma. Most chorangiomas are small and possess no clinical significance. On the contrary, clinically significant chorangiomas, greater then 5 cm or multiple, may be as...

background: heterotopic abdominal pregnancy is a rare entity which poses unique management challenges. case: a 24-year-old gravida 1 woman with history of two years infertility and treatment with clomiphene citrate presented with acute right lower quadrant abdominal pain. heterotopic abdominal pregnancy was recognized at 16 weeks gestation by transvaginal ultrasound scan. we aimed to remove ect...

OBJECTIVE During July-August 2014, the military operation "Protective Edge" presented Israel with a threat of missile attacks. We aimed to investigate the influence of the "Protective Edge" operation on the rate of pregnancy complications among the population exposed to missile attacks, compared to the population not exposed. STUDY DESIGN This was a retrospective study. Pregnancy outcomes wer...

1 Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology/Physiology and Pharmacology, Children’s Health Research Institute, Western University, London, ON, Canada N6A 5C Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Research, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229-3309, USA Academic Child Health, School of Clinical Scie...