Introduction: Intrauterine fetal death after 20 weeks of gestation is a pregnancy-related problem. The rate of stillbirth in each area is an indicator of health status and prenatal care in that specific region. In different countries, the rate of stillbirth has been reported as 4 to 20 per 1000 births. Several factors contribute to the occurance of stillbirth including timely identification and...

Introduction: Assessment of fetal weight is a vital factor in antenatal care, not only in the management of labor and delivery but also in identifying fetal weight disorders. Objective: This study compares the accuracy of clinical methods and ultrasonography in Estimating Fetal Weight (EFW) with Actual Birth Weight (ABW) in term pregnant women. Materials and Methods: This diagnostic test eval...

Couvelaire uterus or Couvelaire syndrome was much more related to coagulopathy like dysfibrinogemia or related to hyperkinesia with prolonged labor. Here we report the case that was found, during cesarean section, with couvelaire uterus and fresh intrauterine fetal death without preceding factors like hyperkinesia or predisposing factor like dysfibrinogemia but with the history of taking herbal...

Infections are a major cause of mortality in critically ill patients. It has been estimated that more than 100,000 health care-associated infections occur annually in intensive care units (ICUs) in the United States.1 This includes 50,000 cases of ventilator-associated pneumonia, 35,000 cases of catheterassociated urinary tract infections, and more than 15,000 cases of central catheter-associat...

conclusions self-care education can improve self-care behavior in women with gestational diabetes and it is also effective in impaired glucose tolerance. results after adjusting for the baseline score, the mean score of self-care behaviors was significantly higher in the intervention group than the control group four weeks after the intervention [adjusted mean difference: 19.5; 95% confidence in...

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology 2008, 21:323–331 Purpose of review To evaluate the impact of recent research on the management of congenital diaphragmatic hernia in the light of new theories on embryological development, earlie antenatal diagnosis, fetal and postnatal interventions together with advances in perinata intensive care. Recent findings The year 2007 provided in excess of 200 publ...

Introduction: To compare the incidence of fetal, maternal and neonatal complications amongst women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and pregnant women with normal glucose tolerance in Shahrood. Materials and Methods: In order to compare fetal and maternal complications, for all pregnant women who were referred from private clinics and health care settings to Fatemiyeh Hospital for scree...