Lecture at the 10 World Congress of Perinatal Medicine. Punta del Este Uruguay, 08-11 November, 2011. Erich Saling Institute of Perinatal Medicine e.V. (http://www.saling-institute.org/) Located at Vivantes Klinikum Neukölln, Berlin, Germany Amnioscopy – developed by us in 1961 – is a simple endoscopic examination which takes only a few minutes. The amnioscope is passed into the cervical canal,...

INTRODUCTION Pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH), especially preeclampsia, is a state of extremely increased oxidative stress (OS), due to decrease of antioxidant capacity in comparison to normotensive pregnant women. The consequences of increased state of oxidative stress with hypertension disorder in pregnancy are disorder of placental blood flow, intrauterine hypoxia of the fetus and distur...

BACKGROUND The safety of vaginal breech delivery has been debated for decades. Although it has been shown to predispose infants to immediate depression, several observational studies have also shown that attempting vaginal breech delivery does not increase perinatal morbidity or low Apgar score at the age of five minutes. Cardiotocography monitoring is recommended during vaginal breech delivery...

background: the admission test (at) has been carried out for many years, but there are still debates about the prognostic value of the test. therefore, we aimed to examine the value of the at in predicting the adverse outcome in neonates. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 425 pregnant women with normal vaginal delivery were studied between2009 and 2014at vali-e-asr hospital. based on the ...