Objective: To evaluate the role of emergency cervical cerclage in prolongation of pregnancy and its effect on pregnancy outcome. Type of Study: a prospective clinical trial. Location: Tertiary Center Hospital, during the period from March 2012 to May 2015. Subjects and Method: Twenty patients fulfilled the inclusion criteria (who presented with a dilated cervical or with or without bulging feta...

The structural integrity of the cervix in pregnancy is necessary for carrying a pregnancy until term, and the organization of human cervical tissue collagen likely plays an important role in the tissue's structural function. Collagen fibers in the cervical extracellular matrix exhibit preferential directionality, and this collagen network ultrastructure is hypothesized to reorient and remodel d...

•First case of NACT in cervical embryonal RMS•Second case occurring in pregnancy•Histological review outlining diagnostic difficulties.

The kinetics of cervical and circulating phosphoisoforms of insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-1 (IGFBP-1) in normal and pathological early pregnancy are not well known. We investigated the profiles of IGFBP-1 in serum and in cervical secretion during medical termination of early pregnancy. Sixteen women requesting termination of pregnancy, with <63 days of amenorrhoea, received 200 mg ...

Cervical incompetence is characterized by painless dilatation of the incompetent cervix and results in miscarriages and preterm delivery during second trimester. We report a 25-year-old patient, gravid 2, para 1, at 11 weeks' gestation with the diagnosis of cervical incompetence, in whom transvaginal cerclage was not technically possible and laparoscopic cervical cerclage was performed successf...