BACKGROUND/AIM Pregnancy-associated plasma protein A (PAPP-A) is high molecular matrix metalloproteinase originally isolated in the serum of pregnant women. The aim of this study was to analyze the values of concentration of PAPP-A in assessment of progress and outcome of pregnancy in pregnant women diagnosed with threatening preterm delivery, preeclampsia and fetal growth restriction in relati...

OBJECTIVE To present new data on sexual initiation, contraceptive use, and pregnancy among US adolescents aged 10 to 19, and to compare the youngest adolescents' behaviors with those of older adolescents. METHODS Using nationally representative data from several rounds of the National Survey of Family Growth, we performed event history (ie, survival) analyses to examine timing of sexual initi...

BACKGROUND In Tanzania, teenage pregnancy rates are still high despite the efforts being made to reduce them. Not enough is known about how adolescents experience and cope with sexuality and teenage pregnancy. Over the past few decades, most studies have focused on vulnerability and risk among youth. The concept of 'reproductive resilience' is a new way of looking at teenage pregnancy. It shift...

Cholesterol was extracted from amniotic fluid, saponified, converted to its trimethylsilyl derivative, and gas chromatographed, with cholesteryl acetate as the internal standard. The method is sufficiently accurate and precise for use with the range of concentrations of cholesterol found in amniotic fluid (5 to 48 mg/litre). Total cholesterol was measured in amniotic fluids collected at differe...

One of the signature public health achievements in the United States in recent years has been the decline in both the teen pregnancy and the teen birth rates. Between 1990 and 2004, the teen pregnancy rate declined 38% [1]; in a similar trend, the teen birth rate declined 31% between 1991 and 2006 [2]. This change was remarkably widespread; significant declines were documented in all states and...

BACKGROUND Pregnancy rate among Iranian adolescents below 20 years of age is increasing. Pregnancy during adolescence is considered a social issue associated with medical, emotional, and social outcomes for the mother, child, and family. The current research examines the experience of pregnancy among Iranian adolescents. MATERIALS AND METHODS The qualitative content analysis method was used. ...

Lorzadeh N1, Ghafarzadeh M1, Vahabi S2, Lashgar-ara GhR3 1. Assistant professor, Department of gynecology, Faculty of medicine, Lorestan University of medical sciences 2. Assistant profwssor, Department of anesthesiology, Faculty of medicine, Lorestan University of medical sciences 3. General practitioner, Information and drugs center of Lorestan health department Abstract Background...

background: many studies have been carried out to understand the effect of endometrial thickness on the reproductive outcome while the factors affecting the pattern itself are still unknown. objective: to determine the factors such as age and the number of follicles that could affect the endometrial thickness materials and methods: this study was conducted as a retrospective study on 680 infert...

heterotopic pregnancy is rare under natural circumstance (conception). we report the first case of heterotopic pregnancy in spontaneous conception with four previous caesarean sections and ruptured tubal ectopic with resultant successful normal intra-uterine pregnancy delivered at term after salpingectomy. a 32-year-old gravida 5 para 4+0 with 3 living children, with 4 previous caesarean sectio...