The incidence of placenta previa is 0.2-0.9% but continues to be one the most serious factors in development obstetric’s bleeding and perinatal losses. situation aggravated by fact that combined with various variations abnormal (deep) attachment uterus (placenta adhaerens, accreta, increta, percreta). Placenta previa, vasa cause significant maternal morbidity mortality. With increasing both ces...

OBJECTIVE This case-control study was performed to compare the pregnancy outcomes of women aged 40 years and older with those of 20- to 30-year-old women. MATERIALS AND METHODS Among 28,507 women who delivered in the Zeinabieh and Hafez hospitals affiliated to Shiraz University of Medical Sciences between September 2001 and October 2004, 574 women (2.01%) were 40 years old or older at the tim...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of pre-natal supplementation of antioxidant Lycopene in prevention of pre-eclampsia in the high risk pregnant women. We also assessed the effect of lycopene supplementation on intra-uterine growth restriction and the perinatal outcome in women at high risk of developing pre-eclampsia. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 54 women between 14-28 weeks of pregnancy w...