There are two potential advantages of mid trimester diagnosis of fetal heart disease. Perinatal management in an environment where the appropriate expertise is available and prepared might result in improved outcomes after intervention in the newborn period in situations where this is required. Alternatively, prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease allows consideration of termination of ...

There will always be women who need abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, and their reasons are often compelling. Although second trimester abortions carry relatively more risks than first trimester abortions, abortion is still very safe throughout the second trimester if done in safe conditions. This paper is about law and policy on second trimester abortions, which are allowed on more restri...

Information about the prenatal exclusion test for Huntington's disease (HD) has been given to an unselected series of couples who attended the genetic counselling clinic from 1986 onwards. Ten couples underwent 13 prenatal tests during this period with expressed intention of stopping a pregnancy if the result indicated a high risk (almost 50%) that the fetus carried the HD gene. Nine fetuses at...

BACKGROUND To identify the socio-demographic differences between a sample of women who present for first-trimester and second-trimester abortion. AIM To determine whether women presenting late (in the second trimester) for abortion differ socio-demographically from those presenting early (in the first trimester). MATERIALS AND METHODS Data over 4 years for women presenting for second-trimes...

Background: To present bilateral lower extremity agenesis which is a rare anomaly and to point out importance of transvaginal sonography (TVS) for the antenatal diagnosis of such anomalies during early in pregnancy. Case: A 25 year-old pregnant woman admitted to our department for first trimester nuchal translucency screening sonography. TVS revealed a 12 weeks and 2 days fetus with positive ca...

The effects of vaginal bleeding during first and second trimester on pregnancy outcomes was assessed in a hospital-based population of 268 non-diabetic women. The group of non-bleeders comprised 173 females whereas, there were 71 females with first and 24 with second trimester bleeding. Fetal loss (abortion) occurred in 34% of first trimester and 25% of second trimester bleeders. Low birth weig...

The current COVID-19 pandemic has introduced many challenges on the presentation of disease, effects disease co-morbidities patient and management these. This necessitated innovative ways managing these patients. is particularly so in pregnant women with COVID-19. We present a case woman her mid-trimester who presented severe requiring ICU admission required termination pregnancy due to worseni...

Background:There is a gradual increase in second-trimester abortion because of wide scale introduction prenatal screening programs detecting women whose pregnancies are complicated by serious fetal abnormalities suchas aneuploidy, cardiovascular and skeletal malformation. It constitutes 10-15% all induced abortions.With the global trend raised cesarean section rate, obstetricians faced with cha...