Due to a surge in the availability of assisted reproductive techniques (ART), the incidence of multiple pregnancies is increasing. Preterm labor is a major complication in such pregnancies. Preterm delivery of the first fetus is often followed by delivery of the remaining fetuses. However, conservative management and delayed interval delivery in the remaining fetuses might allow for fetal lung ...

OBJECTIVE To determine maternal outcome as antenatal and postnatal complications and neonatal outcome as birth weight, morbidity and mortality in triplet gestation. STUDY DESIGN Observational study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Mother and Child Health (MCH) Centre, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad from May 2000 to April 2006. PATIENTS AND METHODS All the patients with trip...

a male, was born at 5 a.m. on the 30th August, 1934. The delivery of both the_ children was quite normal* the presentation being occipito-anterior. The placenta, which was single, was delivered fifteen minutes after the third child. All the children were quite healthy. The first female child weighed six pounds and the second and third males weighed six and a half pounds each. In the accompanyin...

BACKGROUND We describe two cases of dichorionic triplet pregnancy after a frozen-thawed poor-stage embryo transfer. A 39-year-old and a 41-year-old woman underwent ART treatment. The first patient underwent intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) at 34 years of age, and two frozen-thawed poor-stage embryos were transferred at 39 years of age with assisted hatching, resulting in a trichorionic t...

Multiple midline defects (MMD) combined with limb anomalies are severe structural abnormalities with poor prognosis (Khoury et al., 1989). Prenatal diagnosis is mandatory for early detection and management. To date, prenatal diagnosis of MMD in one fetus of a triplet in early pregnancy has never been reported. In this communication, we have reported prenatal diagnosis of a case of MMD (encephal...

Within a period of 6 years (1994-99) we registered 29 triplet deliveries out of a total of 13,969 hospital deliveries (0.02%). Since there is limited information about specific problems of chorionicity in triplet pregnancies, we analysed the 29 cases according to origin of pregnancy and chorionicity. We here report on two cases with a high risk according to chorionicity with dichorionic (DC) di...

Data on 393 002 parturitions and performance in the following production cycle were collected from the SYMLEK database for 145 457 Polish Holstein-Friesian cows representing the active population in the Pomorze and Kujawy regions. The animals first calved during 2000–2012 and were used or culled by the end of 2013. GLM and FREQ procedures of the SAS package were used for the statistical calcula...