BACKGROUND Symptoms of gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) in pregnancy are reported with a prevalence of 30-80%. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and severity of GERD symptoms during the course of pregnancy. Furthermore current practice in medical care for GERD during pregnancy was assessed. METHODS We performed a prospective longitudinal cohort study on 510 pregnant wo...

BACKGROUND Untreated maternal hypothyroidism can have adverse effects on both the mother and fetus, but it can potentially be prevented by adequate levothyroxine replacement. This study was conducted to determine what percentage of hypothyroid pregnant women who were taking levothyroxine needed to adjust their medication dosage, and when and how much it should be increased. METHODS In this lo...

Spontaneous quadruplet is rarely seen. Quadruplet pregnancy is accompanied with severe complications such as abortion , premature labor , first trimester vaginal bleeding , anemia and …etc . Our patient was a 29- year old lady with history of first pregnancy twin that was aborted. In the second pregnancy at three months of gestation sonography showed quadruplet pregnancy so cerclage was perfo...

BACKGROUND Thyroid hormones (THs) regulate many biological functions in the human body and are essential for normal brain development. Epidemiological studies have observed diverging associations between halogenated persistent organic pollutant (POP) exposure and concentrations of THs in pregnant women and their infants. We investigated whether background exposure to polybrominated diphenyl eth...

the purpose of the study is to show in which trimester of pregnancy is fatigue more common among working women, and whether or not there is any relationship between fatigue rate and educational level, income, etc. this is a longitudinal study. from the total number of patients who came to zeinab university hospital, 100 completed a demographics 50 item questionnaire and the numerical rating sca...

The most common cause of pregnancy losses is chromosomal anomalies. Fetal chromosomal anomalies are found in 90% preembryonic losses, 50% first trimester abortions, 2/3 malformed embryos, and 1/3 malformed fetuses. Considering all pregnancy losses, the rate 50%...

Oxytocin (OT), a nanopeptide hormone, plays a role in the emergence of maternal behavior, yet few studies examined OT in humans across pregnancy and the postpartum. We followed healthy women at three points: first trimester of pregnancy, third trimester, and first postpartum month. Plasma OT levels showed high individual stability. A third of the sample showed consistent OT levels, whereas othe...

the scientific literature regarding threatened abortion is relatively limited on the subject of outcomes and viability at term. to investigate prospectively the risk of adverse pregnancy outcome in women presenting with first-trimester threatened miscarriage, a prospective case control study was performed on 600 subjects, 150 women presenting with bleeding in the first trimester and 450 asympto...

context maternal serum human chorionic gonadotropin (hcg) and alpha fetal protein (afp) were originally introduced to detect trisomy 21 and neural tube defects. however, in the absence of aneuploidy or neural tube defects, mid-trimester maternal serum hcg and/or maternal serum afp associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. pregnancies with unexplained mid-trimester elevation in maternal serum ...