Fear of childbirth casts a shadow in 10% of the pregnancies. It can cause fear, mental illnesses and previous experiences of violence or bad experiences in giving birth. It is treated at the phobia clinic with the support of a midwife and an obstetrician. Psychoeducative group therapy intended for primigravid women has proven to be the most effective form of therapy. In addition to obstetric as...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association of different factors with postpartum depression. METHODS A prospective study conducted in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical College, Kolkata. Six thousand patients, 4-7 days postpartum, were interrogated using Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS). Sociodemographic factors (age, parity, literacy, socioeconomic status, marital stat...

BACKGROUND Between 0.1 and 0.9% of women develop complications of pregnancy that require admission to an intensive care unit (ICU). The purpose of this study was to review all obstetric patients admitted to the ICU over an 8-year period to determine the causes and outcomes of these admissions and the frequency and causes of maternal mortality. METHODS This retrospective study was based on all...

Uterine rupture is one of the most feared obstetric complications affecting the pregnant woman and fetus. Most of the cases have various risk factors and mainly occur during the second or third trimester. However, spontaneous uterine rupture during the first trimester is extremely rare. We experienced a case of spontaneous uterine rupture in a 36-yr-old multiparous woman without definite risk f...

contemporary poets and writers use from their past legacy and their work influenced by the relationship to the bad or good works of the past writers whom they revealed strength and weakness of the past societies. najib mahfouz used past legacy in his work by “thartharafawq al-nil (“chatter on the nile”) and animate and quicken his novel with this skill. he used kinds of past legacies such as hi...

OBJECTIVES The aim was to present pregnancy complications and outcome in the group of women with subchorionic hematoma (SCH) diagnosed in the first or second trimester of pregnancy METHODS A retrospective study was performed to compare the perinatal outcome of 41 patients with SCH (study group) with 59 women treated of threatening abortion (control group). Age, obstetric history the course of...

abstract: introduction & objective: in patients with chronic renal failure who need chronic hemodialysis, av fistula is one of the most proper ways of vascular access. the aim of this study was to assess the patency and complications of av fistulas in patients with chronic hemodialysis. materials & methods: in this descriptive study 82 patients with chronic renal failure, who underwent av fistu...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether self-reports of reproductive history and obstetric morbidity provide an accurate basis for clinical decision-making. SETTING, PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS: Self-reports of maternal age and reproductive history, together with clinical measurements of five medical disorders, were abstracted from the obstetric notes of 517 mothers whose children were enrolled in the Birth t...

OBJECTIVE To examine the potential value of maternal serum level of α-fetoprotein (AFP) in the first trimester of pregnancy in the prediction of spontaneous early preterm delivery. METHODS Maternal serum concentration of AFP at 11-13 weeks' gestation was measured in a case-control study of singleton pregnancies delivering phenotypically normal neonates, including 33 cases with spontaneous del...