Aim: We aimed to compare and analyze the perinatal obstetric outcomes of in vitro fertilization (IVF) method spontaneous twin pregnancies.
 Material Method: Pregnant women who had IVF those with a tertiary perinatology center between January 2016 2021 were retrospectively included this study. The demographic data (gender, age, gestational week) types (spontaneous or IVF) analyzed. Prematur...

Aim. To find predictive and indicative markers of risk for development of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and its progression to the stage requiring laser treatment, in premature infants whose gestational age (GA) was under 33 weeks. Methods. We retrospectively reviewed medical records of 197 premature infants born in 2005-2010 whose GA < 33 weeks and underwent eye screening at Keio University...

purpose: to determine the frequency of congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction (cnldo) in premature newborns and its correlation with gestational age (ga), sex, family history and chronological age. methods: this study was performed on infants who were referred for retinopathy of prematurity from 2002 to 2003. cases of cnldo were visited again three and six months later. results: this study wa...

BACKGROUND Neonates born between 24 + 0 and 27 + 6 gestational weeks, widely known as extremely preterm neonates, present a category characterized by increased neonatal mortality and morbidity. Main objective of the present study is to analyze the effect of various epidemiological and pregnancy-related parameters on unfavorable neonatal mortality and morbidity outcomes. METHODS A retrospectiv...

This paper is the first in a three-part series on preterm birth, which is the leading cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality in developed countries. Infants are born preterm at less than 37 weeks' gestational age after: (1) spontaneous labour with intact membranes, (2) preterm premature rupture of the membranes (PPROM), and (3) labour induction or caesarean delivery for maternal or fetal in...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether zinc supplementation during pregnancy improves maternal and fetal outcome. DESIGN Controlled clinical trial started at registration until discharge of mother and child from hospital. Two thousand volunteer mothers were randomly assigned to receive zinc supplementation or placebo in a double blind trial. PATIENTS Women less than 20 weeks pregnant at the first...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the effect of gestational age on short-term neonatal morbidity in cases of spontaneous, low-risk singleton late preterm deliveries and to identify predictors of adverse neonatal outcome. METHODS This was a retrospective study of all spontaneous, low-risk late preterm deliveries (34 0/7 to 36 6/7 weeks of gestation) during the years 1997 to 2006 (n=2,478). Multiple gestat...

introduction: cesarean surgical site infection (ssi) occurs in 3% to 17% of patients who undergo cesarean delivery. ssis increase postcesarean maternal morbidity and health costs and cause longer hospital stays. therefore, we designed a study to assess the effects of normal saline and cefazolin irrigation on the incidence of ssis. methods: in this study, 200 participants were divided into 3 gro...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between history of induced abortion and preterm delivery in various parts of Europe, and according to the main cause of preterm birth. METHODS We used data from a case-control survey, the EUROPOP study; 2938 preterm births and 4781 controls at term from ten European countries were included. Based on national statistics...