to determine the gestational age of ultrasound devices, commonly used standard tables. the aim was to determine the gestational age of pregnant women admitted to hospitals in zahedan with hadlock and osaka table and gestational age derived from the tables to be adjusted to determine the gestational age of the actual use of tables for a more accurate determination of gestational age for the prop...

OBJECTIVE To study development of restless legs syndrome (RLS) during and after pregnancy, and whether RLS is related to snoring or other pregnancy-related symptoms. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING Antenatal care clinics in the catchment area of Linköping university hospital, Sweden. POPULATION Five hundred consecutively recruited pregnant women. METHODS Sleep disturbances, including ...

OBJECTIVE To validate the diagnosis of second trimester miscarriages/deliveries (16+0 weeks to 27+6 weeks of gestation) recorded as miscarriages in the Danish National Patient Registry or spontaneous deliveries in the Danish Medical Birth Registry, and asses the validity of risk factors, pregnancy complications, and cerclage by review of medical records. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a cohort of 2...

Objective: Knowing the ideal levels of triiodothyronine (T3), thyroxine (T4), FT3, FT4, and thyrotropin-stimulating hormone (TSH) for each pregnancy trimester are goal. Methods: The Department Obstetrics Gynecology at Pacific Institute Medical Sciences in Udaipur treated 150 patients (obstetric cases) current longitudinal research. following parameters were examined a fasting blood sample: T3, ...

Background: Various studies have come to contradictory results regarding the relationship between maternal hemoglobin (Hb) level and adverse pregnancy outcomes. The present study aimed to investigate the birth outcomes among pregnant women who had normal hemoglobin levels in the first trimester of their pregnancy. Patients and Methods: In this prospective study, 108 healthy pregnant women wi...

How do abortion providers determine how late in pregnancy they will provide abortion services? While law, training and socio-political factors likely play a part, this essay considers additional factors, including: personal and psychological aspects, visceral responses to the fetus and fetal parts at later gestations, feelings that second trimester abortion is violent, and ethical concerns with...

This study investigates how secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure influences neonatal birth weight in Jordan, a country with high smoking prevalence. The findings revealed that as the average number of SHS exposure hours per week increased in the second trimester, the neonatal birth weight decreased while holding all covariates constant. Women who reported a higher average number of SHS exposure hour...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between fetal growth between first and early second trimester ultrasound scan and the risk of severe small for gestational age (SGA) birth. METHODS This cohort study included 69 550 singleton pregnancies with first trimester dating and an early second trimester growth scan in Stockholm and Gotland Counties, Sweden between 2008 and 2014. Exposure was d...

OBJECTIVE To study the pregnancy outcomes in first trimester vaginal bleeding. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross sectional study was done on 60 pregnant women with first trimester vaginal bleeding referring to university hospitals affiliated to Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. All women were evaluated for the outcomes including abortion, preterm rapture of membranes, preterm labor, secon...

BACKGROUND Central nervous system malformations are the second most common congenital malformations after congenital heart diseases. These malformations are associated with many instances of morbidity and mortality which underline the importance of prevention and their early diagnosis. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is the diagnosis of neural tube defect (NTDs) in the first trimester a...