OBJECTIVE To investigate whether maternal anxiety in the third trimester is associated with an increased uterine artery resistance index. DESIGN Cohort based study. SUBJECTS 100 pregnant women, with a mean gestation of 32 weeks. OUTCOME MEASURES Self rating Spielberger questionnaire for state anxiety and trait anxiety, and uterine blood flow waveform patterns as assessed by colour Doppler...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether the calcium blocker nifedipine alters Doppler velocimetry and impedance parameters in the uterine artery in prematurely menopausal women. METHODS Uterine artery Doppler examinations were performed transvaginally in seventeen prematurely menopausal women without the use of calcium blocker (T0). Following a 10-mg sublingual dose of nifedipine patients were subseq...

PURPOSE To investigate whether, in the second trimester of pregnancy, placental T2 relaxation time (determined using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)) is related to impedance to flow in the uterine arteries. METHODS In 40 singleton pregnancies at 24-29 weeks' gestation, uterine artery pulsatility index (PI) was measured by Doppler ultrasound and T2 relaxation time was measured by echo planar ...

Aim of the study To evaluate the value of uterine artery Doppler indices and waveform pattern in predicting fetuses at risk for intrauterine growth restriction in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. Materials and methods This was a prospective cross-sectional study including 80 pregnant subjects with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and two control groups. Uterine artery Doppler sonograph...

BACKGROUND: To study the utility of uterine artery Doppler flow velocimetry in 2nd trimester in prediction of preeclampsia in high risk and low risk women. MATERIALS AND METHODS: 200 women carrying <16weeks of pregnancy with singleton fetus and without any fetal anomaly were recruited and were divided in high-risk and low-risk group. Doppler velocimetry of uterine artery was done at 24-26 weeks...

PURPOSE To evaluate the technical feasibility and clinical outcome of bilateral uterine artery embolization (UAE) as a first-line therapeutic option for bleeding uterine arteriovenous malformation (AVM). MATERIALS AND METHODS Between 2002 and 2012, 19 patients were diagnosed with acquired uterine AVM clinically and through imaging studies. The clinical characteristics, angiographic features, ...

Women of advanced maternal age are considered to be at a substantially increased risk of spontaneous abortion. The increased spontaneous abortion rate in older women rnight be associated with a defective vascular response to placentation, which rnight lead to fetal ischaemia and fetal dead. Doppler velocirnetry of the uterine artery allows non-invasive assessment of uteroplacental hemodynamics....

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to compare pregnancy outcomes in women with fibromyomata who were treated with uterine artery embolization to the outcomes in women who were treated with laparoscopic myomectomy. STUDY DESIGN We compiled data from 53 pregnancies after uterine artery embolization and 139 pregnancies after laparoscopic myomectomy. We calculated and compared rates for sp...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the potential value of combining uterine artery Doppler ultrasonography with the measurement of maternal serum pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A), free beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (beta-hCG), activin A and inhibin A at 22 + 0 to 24 + 6 weeks' gestation, in the prediction of pregnancies that subsequently develop pre-eclampsia. METHODS The maternal ser...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown an association between low first trimester maternal serum free beta-hCG and PAPP-A and subsequent development of pregnancy complications. Similarly, uterine artery Doppler in the late second trimester has shown that high impedance to flow is associated with increased risk for preeclampsia and fetal growth restriction. The objective of this study is to dete...