BACKGROUND This paper, the first of a two-part series on premature labor, reviews the recent literature on the causes of and risk factors for preterm labor and methods of diagnosis. METHODS A review of the literature on risk determination and diagnosis of preterm labor was conducted by searching MEDLINE files from 1983 to the present, using the key terms "preterm labor," "premature labor," "p...

at the present, many drugs are used for inhibition of uterine contractions, but the proportions of preterm labors are increasing. although magnesium sulfate is the most commonly prescribed parenteral tocolytic agent, but its optimal use has yet to be delineated. in this study a high-dose protocol for magnesium sulfate tocolytic therapy was compared with a low-dose regimen. one-hundred patients ...

Preterm labor is responsible for a majority of cases of perinatal morbidity and deaths. Prevention of preterm labor is not usually possible; thus pharmacologic treatment is the only recourse available. Numerous agents have been used to treat preterm labor, but none has proved to be superior. This report reviews the current information available about the pharmacology of labor-inhibiting drugs a...

Background Preterm birth with a prevalence of about 10% causes 75-95% of prenatal mortality, and one of the effective factors of it is hormonal factors. This study aimed to investigate the effect of oral medroxy progesterone on reducing preterm labor in women with a history of preterm labor. Materials and Methods This double-...

BACKGROUND Threatened preterm labor is a leading cause of hospital admission during pregnancy. Patients with an episode of threatened preterm labor who deliver at term are considered to have false preterm labor. However, threatened preterm labor has been proposed as a pathologic insult that is not always sufficient to induce irreversible spontaneous preterm birth but that could alter the normal...

preterm birth means the birth before thirty seven week of pregnancy that causes a lot of complications for the baby. variety factors are suggested to be involved in disease. in this study, we decided to evaluate haptoglobin (hp) phenotypes association with clinical features of patients suffered from premature delivery to understand better the possible correlation of genetic and clinical feature...

AIM Preterm delivery is a serious problem during pregnancy with remarkable neonatal adverse effects. Prediction of preterm delivery in women with preterm uterine contractions or signs of preterm labor is critical because if these women are identified they can be referred to tertiary centers. The present study aimed to evaluate the value of maternal serum urocortin concentration for predicting p...