UNLABELLED This study aimed to verify whether the distance walked is correlated with women's pain level throughout the active phase of labor. METHODOLOGY We realized an analytic, quasi-experimental intervention study. Study participants were 80 primiparous parturient women, who were admitted during spontaneous labor, with 37-42 weeks, at the start of the active phase. DATA ANALYSIS Spearman...

BACKGROUND Cervical pregnancy is a rare form of ectopic pregnancy, and the most effective method of its treatment is still under investigation. We would like to call attention to selective uterine artery embolization as an effective modern treatment method. CASE A patient with suspected cervical pregnancy and 7-week amenorrhea was admitted to the hospital after unsuccessful use of emergency c...

PURPOSE We evaluated the characteristics of patients with Kawasaki disease (KD) who presented with only fever and cervical lymphadenopathy on admission, and compared them with the characteristics of those who presented with typical features but no cervical lymphadenopathy. METHODS We enrolled 98 patients diagnosed with KD. Thirteen patients had only fever and cervical lymphadenopathy on the d...

Background/Aim: Due to the increasing cesarean rates globally, new methods for supporting vaginal delivery and induction of successful are still being developed. We aimed obtain an easy-to-use method that can predict effectiveness cervical ripening agents before labor induction. So, we presented effects on by measuring thickness cervix length/thickness ratio ultrasonographically. Methods: In th...

Objective. The main objective of the study was to determine the reliability of the Cornier’ pipelle endometrial biopsy in determining endometrial cancer, and the comparison of this with the gold standard method, dilatation and curettage. Materials and methods. A number of 105 patients with indication of endometrial biopsy were included in this study. Initially the Cornier’ pipelle endometrial b...

AIMS To examine the association between women's perception of onset and the duration of labor after hospital admission. METHODS Women whose labor started spontaneously at term, delivering at the Hannover Medical School Hospital, Germany, between 2001 and 2004 were asked when and how labor had started. Answers were analyzed using structured content analysis. Women's symptoms were grouped in ei...

Objectives: To compare the duration of labour and rate of cervical dilatation with drotaverine hydrochloride and valethamate bromide in first stage of labour. : Sixty consecutive uncomplicated primigarvida with spontaneous onset of labour, at term gestation with vertex Materials and methods presentation were selected and randomized into two groups of 30 each. One group received drotaverine hydr...

METHODS A retrospective analysis of medical records of three consecutive cohorts of women. All cohorts received a digoxin feticide injection on Day 1. Two cohorts were treated with laminaria, cohort A of 151 women over 1-2 days and cohort B of 52 women over 1-3 days, and cohort C of 151 women was treated with Dilapan-S over 1-3 days. RESULTS Adequate cervical priming for dilatation and evacua...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to explore factors influencing the accuracy of transvaginal digital examination for determining fetal head position during the first stage of labor. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fetal head position was assessed in 87 women in the first stage of labor at term with normal singleton cephalic presentation. Transvaginal digital examinations were performed by atte...

BACKGROUND Epidural analgesia initiated early in labor (when the cervix is less than 4.0 cm dilated) has been associated with an increased risk of cesarean delivery. It is unclear, however, whether this increase in risk is due to the analgesia or is attributable to other factors. METHODS We conducted a randomized trial of 750 nulliparous women at term who were in spontaneous labor or had spon...