background & aim: to decrease the rate of caesarean section, complicated intervention for changing behaviors are required. the present study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness education on anxiety, fear of delivery, pain catastrophizing, and selecting caesarean section as the delivery method among nulliparous pregnant women who referred to ziaeian hospital. methods & mat...

Background: Fetal buttocks or feet positioned at the pelvic inlet are referred to as breech presentation. Both vaginal delivery and Caesarean section options for them. Everyone agrees that deliveries better handled by caesarian than delivery. Risk factors presentation include uterine abnormalities, prematurity, foetal repeated pregnancies. This research sought ascertain fate in multigravida ind...

Background and aims Endometriosis is a commonly encountered disorder in women of reproductive age, consisting of the presence of active ectopic endometrial tissue outside the endometrial cavity. Surgical scar endometriosis is a rare condition representing about 2% of all endometriosis cases. The purpose of this study was to assess the main characteristics, diagnostic tools and therapeutic optio...

Results Out of the 104 pregnant women, 94 were known with HIV before getting pregnant, 65.2% of them were under cART by the time they got pregnant. These patients were treated with different cART, based on their antiretroviral treatment history and guidelines. The rest of pregnant women were diagnosed with HIV at delivery or soon after childbirth. We had a total of 115 children born by mothers ...

BACKGROUND Membranous ventricular septal aneurysm (MVSA) is a rare cardiac anomaly that can occur as an isolated entity or being associated with other cardiac malformations. Complications of MVSA include thromboembolism, arrhythmia, rupture, bacterial endocarditis, right ventricular outflow tract obstruction, and atrioventricular valve diseases.The success rate of pregnancy and delivery in pati...

OBJECTIVE The impacts of an episiotomy on a woman's sex life and ability to relax the pelvic musculature remain largely unknown. The aim of the present study was to assess the impact of an episiotomy on the development of postpartum dyspareunia and anal incontinence. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 200 patients participated in the present study. The patients were grouped as follows: vaginal ...

Objective To summarise the literature on urgent dental care and to identify research priorities on the organisation and delivery of urgent dental services. Basic research design Scoping review using Andersen's behavioural model of health service utilisation for a framework analysis of the data. Main outcome measures Gaps in the literature, defined as those factors and interactions identifie...

BACKGROUND Hypertensive disorders are the most common in pregnancy. Several studies showed a positive correlation between elevated maternal serum uric acid (UA), serum creatinine and adverse maternal and fetal outcomes, but only a few studies are available on serum cystatin C and maternal and fetal outcomes. The present study was undertaken to study the association of serum UA, creatinine and c...