estimating maternal mortality level is constantly challenging researchers and planners both in rich and poor countries. in developing countries, particularly in burkina faso where the registration system is not working properly, censuses and surveys are the main providers of maternal mortality estimates. however, censuses provide more reliable data about maternal mortality especially at sub-nat...

background: human fertility has been declined all over the world. advanced women’s age is one of the most important factors in determining the success of reproduction and ageing has negative impact on art outcome and advanced female age decreases the chance of live birth rates achieved using art, especially after 40 years of age. objective: to evaluate art outcomes regarding to pregnancy, abort...

Background Today, many of women postpone their birth of the first baby until fourth or fifth decade. This study was to evaluate the pregnancy outcomes in women aged 40 years and older in pregnant women referred to Ayatolah Rohani Hospital in Babol. MaterialsAndMethods This case-control study was conducted of 160 patients in two groups, ≥ 40 age group and age group

background: due to increase in pregnancy complications in advanced age, this study was conducted to assess the relationship between advanced maternal age and the pregnancy complications. methods: pregnant women who admitted to the motazedi hospital in kermanshah were included in this analytic–cross sectional study. the study group was 1178 cases that divided into two sub-groups; 35-40 year-old ...

adverse outcome of pregnancy is a potentially dangerous complication of conception and affects 15-20% of pregnancies. according to recent studies increased level of blood antiphospholipids antibodies, if accompanied by predisposing factors, can be an adverse event in human pregnancy. the aim of the present study was to compare the maternal serum levels of anticardiolipin and antiphosphatidyl se...

The purpose of this pilot study is to asses the effects of multiple pregnancies on the maturation of the developing brain using the polysomnographic EEG recordings. Data from prospectively recorded 10 twin sets, born prematurely (mean 36 gestational week; range 33 - 38 GW) in the Split University Hospital Center, were analysed. We compared sleep architecture parameters in the twins at 37h and 4...

Cesarean scar pregnancy (CSP), often considered the rarest form of ectopic pregnancy, is a result of implantation of the gestational sac into the fibrous tissue scar of a previous cesarean section. With an increase in the rate of cesarean sections, along with better awareness and improvement in sonographic diagnosis, the number and detection of scar pregnancies are on the rise. Because of its e...

BACKGROUND Term birth is a gestational age from 259 days to 293 days. However trends in mortality according to gestational ages in days have not yet been described in this time period. METHODS AND FINDINGS Based on nation-wide registries, we conducted a population-based cohort study among all children born at term in Denmark from 1997 to 2004 to estimate differences in mortality across gestat...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organisation suggests that simplification of the medical abortion regime will contribute to an increased acceptability of medical abortion, among women as well as providers. It is expected that a home-based follow-up after a medical abortion will increase the willingness to opt for medical abortion as well as decrease the workload and service costs in the clinic. M...

BACKGROUND/AIM Pregnancy-associated plasma protein A (PAPP-A) is high molecular matrix metalloproteinase originally isolated in the serum of pregnant women. The aim of this study was to analyze the values of concentration of PAPP-A in assessment of progress and outcome of pregnancy in pregnant women diagnosed with threatening preterm delivery, preeclampsia and fetal growth restriction in relati...