The placenta represents a key organ for fetal growth as it acts as an interface between mother and fetus, regulating the fetal-maternal exchange of nutrients, gases, and waste products. During pregnancy, amino acids represent one of the major nutrients for fetal life, and both maternal and fetal concentrations are significantly different in pregnancies with intrauterine growth restriction when ...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether embryo biopsy for preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) influences neonatal outcomes. DESIGN Prospective follow-up cohort. SETTING Tertiary university-affiliated medical center. PATIENT(S) 242 children born after PGD, 242 children born after intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) (158 singletons and 42 twins pairs in each group), and 733 children born after...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence of positive serologic findings for celiac disease in Indian women with poor reproductive performance. DESIGN Cross-sectional except that the women with intrauterine growth restriction were followed prospectively until delivery. SETTING Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of a tertiary teaching hospital, New Delhi. PATIENT(S) Eight hundred ninety...

Obesity and excessive lipolysis are implicated in preeclampsia (PE). Intrauterine growth restriction is associated with low maternal body mass index and decreased lipolysis. Our aim was to assess how maternal and offspring fatty acid metabolism is altered in mothers in the third trimester of pregnancy with PE (n=62) or intrauterine growth restriction (n=23) compared with healthy pregnancies (n=...

Longstanding recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics,1,2 the Canadian Paediatrics Society,3 and the European Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition4,5 state that the nutritional management of preterm infants, especially of extremely preterm (EPT) infants, should support growth at a rate that approximates the rate of intrauterine growth. However, extraute...

Longstanding recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Canadian Paediatrics Society, and the European Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition state that the nutritional management of preterm infants, especially of extremely preterm (EPT) infants, should support growth at a rate that approximates the rate of intrauterine growth. However, extrauterine gr...

A 22-year-old patient with 9 months of amenorrhea and a huge abdominal swelling was admitted to our institution with an ultrasonography report of a multiloculated cystic space-occupying lesion, almost taking up the whole abdomen (probably of ovarian origin), along with a single live intrauterine fetus. She delivered vaginally a boy baby within 4 hours of admission without any maternal complicat...

A case is presented of inadequate hospital care in a pregnant woman with fetal growth restriction (FGR) and oligohydramnios, which resulted in intrauterine fetal death with the cause of death concealed by the obstetrician.