BACKGROUND Maternal electrolyte imbalance is rarely reported as causative factor of severe perinatal brain injury. CASE CHARACTERISTICS This case outlines a unique maternal and neonatal pseudo-Bartter syndrome presented with metabolic alkalosis and hypochloremia due to maternal severe vomiting. OBSERVATION Neonatal MRI brain revealed extensive brain hemorrhages with porencephalic cysts. Sub...

Abstract Background Postpartum maternal functioning has the potential to affect quality of interaction between mother and child. A proper assessment requires a comprehensive accurate tool. The objective this study was prepare Persian version Barkin Index Maternal Functioning (BIMF) evaluate its psychometric properties in order determine applicability Iranian mothers. Methods BIMF translated int...

Some studies suggest that fetal sex plays a role in maternal physiological processes during pregnancy including glycemic control, blood pressure, and cortisol regulation. However, data examining fetal sex-specific differences in maternal immune parameters is lacking. In the current study, serum levels of interleukin(IL)-6, IL-8, and tumor necrosis factor(TNF)-α as well as LPS-stimulated product...

This study set out to examine father-related factors predicting maternal physical child abuse risk in a national birth cohort of 1,480 families. In-home and phone interviews were conducted with mothers when index children were 3 years old. Predictor variables included the mother-father relationship status; father demographic, economic, and psychosocial variables; and key background factors. Out...

Evidence supports the premise that maternal psychological distress adversely affects pregnancy outcomes and that inflammatory markers and placentally-produced corticotrophin-releasing hormone (pCRH) are likely mediating factors. The primary aim of the study was to explore the associations between maternal psychological distress, use of selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, pCRH, and materna...

BACKGROUND Cesarean delivery rates continue to increase worldwide and reached 57% in Brazil in 2014. Although the safety of this surgery has improved in the last decades, this trend is a concern because it carries potential risks to women's health and may be a modifiable risk factor of maternal mortality. This paper aims to investigate the risk of postpartum maternal death directly associated w...

The pathogenesis of malaria during pregnancy is not fully Background: understood. A proinflammatory cytokine, macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is suggested as a factor involved in the pathogenesis of malaria during pregnancy. A cross-sectional study was conducted in Medani Hospital, Sudan to Methods: investigate MIF levels in placental malaria. Obstetrical and medical characteristic...

OBJECTIVE To examine the performance of screening for pre-eclampsia (PE) and gestational hypertension (GH) by a combination of maternal factors and various biophysical and biochemical markers at 11-13 weeks' gestation. METHODS This was a case-control study of 26 cases of early PE, 90 of late PE, 85 of GH and 201 unaffected controls. Maternal history was recorded, the uterine artery with the l...

the present report describes a male newborn with a pulsatile structure beneath the sternum. echocardiography showed common atrium, a single ventricle, mitral atresia, double outlet right ventricle, subpulmonary stenosis, small pulmonary artery branches, and a thin walled ventricular diverticulum suggestive of cantrell's syndrome. the diverticulum was resected to prevent life threatening events ...

BACKGROUND The pathogenesis of malaria during pregnancy is not fully understood. A proinflammatory cytokine, macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is suggested as a factor involved in the pathogenesis of malaria during pregnancy. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in Medani Hospital, Sudan to investigate MIF levels in placental malaria. Obstetrical and medical characteristic...