We herein describe a woman with two consecutive pregnancies affected by fetal nuchal cystic hygroma (CH) with a normal karyotype. A 33-year-old woman (gravidity 2, parity 1) was referred to us because of fetal hydrops. No consanguinity or Rh isoimmunization was involved in her current or previous pregnancy. First-trimester ultrasonography revealed nuchal CH, and chorion villus sampling was perf...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to evaluate the association between complications and clinical parameters with obesity in 273 women who have undergone abdominal myomectomy during the study period. METHODS The patients were classified into two groups according to body mass index (BMI) (≤30 kg/m(2) and >30 kg/m(2)). Demographic, preoperative and postoperative clinical parameters were evaluated. R...

The VAR2CSA protein of Plasmodium falciparum is transported to and expressed on the infected erythrocyte surface where it plays a key role in placental malaria (PM). It is the current leading candidate for a vaccine to prevent PM. However, the antigenic polymorphism integral to VAR2CSA poses a challenge for vaccine development. Based on detailed analysis of polymorphisms in the sequence of its ...

Much of the recent controversy surrounding the relation between fetal death and pregnancy order has centred around the appropriateness of different types of analyses. In the present paper the interpretation of various methods are discussed with reference to "real" and "hypothetical" data. The pattern of results obtained when the fetal loss rates of a group of pregnancies are tabulated by pregna...

We tested 315 bats from 7 different bat species in northern Germany for coronaviruses by reverse transcription-PCR. The overall prevalence was 9.8%. There were 4 lineages of group I coronaviruses in association with 4 different species of verspertilionid bats (Myotis dasycneme, M. daubentonii, Pipistrellus nathusii, P. pygmaeus). The lineages formed a monophyletic clade of bat coronaviruses fou...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether maternal prepregnancy shoe size can be used to reliably predict infant birth weight. METHOD This is a cross-sectional study of 111 consecutive patients admitted to the maternity care unit of a small community hospital. Data collected included prepregnancy height, maternal weight, maternal shoe size, maternal age, gravidity, parity, ethnicity, and method of deliv...

Background: This study aimed to investigate the effects of abnormal placental location and placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) disorder on risk hypertensive disorders pregnancy (HDPs). Methods: retrospective included 985 patients with 2100 normal location. The incidence HDPs in those concurrent PAS was analyzed. factors affecting pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) were analyzed using logistic reg...

Background: Teenage pregnancy is prone to cause problems on maternal nutritional status. If status during not monitored properly, the chance for mother experience complications in birth weight of newborn can be increased.Objective: To find out relationship between and other risk factors with neonatal teenage pregnancy.Methods: This research an observational analytic study cross-sectional approa...

Objectives: To assess the frequency of deficiency vitamin D and associated factor among gravid women following up at antenatal clinic social security hospital, Gujranwala Method: It was a cross-sectional study carried out Gujranwala. Total 100 pregnant females who were on follow-up visits gave consent enrolled in this through non-probability purposive sampling technique. A semi-structured pre-t...