Cancer is rare during pregnancy, but breast cancer is the second most common cancer in pregnant women. Pregnancy-associated breast cancer (PABC) is defined as breast cancer that occurs during pregnancy or within one year of delivery. Five cases of PABC occurring during the second and third trimester of pregnancy managed at the University Hospital of Vienna during the year 2005/2006 are reported...

BACKGROUND The pregnancy outcome of the unicornuate uterus is associated with an increased risk of miscarriage, cervical incompetence, and a number of obstetric complications. However, at present, there is no accepted treatment method for women with unicornuate uterus, other than expectant measures. The aim of this study was to evaluate the reproductive outcome of transcervical uterine incision...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between dietary supplement use during pregnancy and birth outcomes. DESIGN A prospective birth cohort. SETTING Leeds, UK. SAMPLE One thousand two hundred and seventy-four pregnant women aged 18-45 years. METHODS Dietary supplement intake was ascertained using three questionnaires for the first, second and third trimesters. Dietary intake was reporte...

INTRODUCTION Pregnancy causes diverse physiologic and lifestyle changes that may contribute to increased driving and driving error. We compared the risk of a serious motor vehicle crash during the second trimester to the baseline risk before pregnancy. METHODS We conducted a population-based self-matched longitudinal cohort analysis of women who gave birth in Ontario between April 1, 2006, an...

Objective. The guidelines of the American Thyroid Association (ATA) recommend an upper limit reference interval (RI) of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) of 2.5 mIU/L in the first trimester of pregnancy and 3.0 mIU/L in subsequent trimesters, but some reported ranges in China are significantly higher. Our study aimed to establish trimester- and assay-specific RIs for thyroid hormones in normal ...

Reprint request: Dr. M.L. Kulkarni, Professor of Pediatrics, 2373, MCC A Block, Davangere 577 004. methods of obtaining fetal tissues for karyotype, DISFA studies and enzyme assay(4). The procedure is done at 8-11 weeks of gestation. The transcervical sampling involves insertion of various types of catheters transcervically under ultrasound guidance for aspiration of chorionic villi. Transabdom...

background: abnormal levels of the markers afp, hcg, and ue3 could be useful in predicting adverse pregnancy outcomes. this study was designed to determine the correlation between second trimester maternal serum markers and adverse pregnancy outcome (apo). methods: in this historical cohort study, we randomly followed 231 obstetric patients with quadruple screening test in 14-18 weeks of gestat...

BACKGROUND We examined the current status of depressive and anxiety symptoms in Japanese women during pregnancy and postpartum. METHODS We asked 220 Japanese women who gave birth to singleton babies at term to answer the two self-administered questionnaires (Whooley's two questions and two-item generalized anxiety disorder scale) at first, second and third trimester of pregnancy and 1 month a...