objective: to compare the effect of the physiologic and facilitated labor on the mother and neonate outcomes in the prim gravid women referring to arash hospital. materials and methods: this clinical trial study was performed on 200 low risk pregnant women referring to arash women's hospital in 2012-2013. mothers were divided into two groups of 100 patients using a simple random sampling method...

prematurity is the most common cause of neonatal death. risk factors of premature birth can be related with ethnicity and genetic. there is no comprehensive high sample size study in kurdish ethnicity to determine risk factors related to prematurity. this study evaluated risk factors of preterm labor in kurdish ethnicity.this case-control study was conducted in 200 preterm infants (case group) ...

OBJECTIVE To describe expectant women's experiences with the onset of preterm labor. DESIGN Qualitative, using grounded theory methods. SETTING Southwestern tertiary women's hospital. PARTICIPANTS Thirty pregnant women who were less than 35 weeks gestation, had experienced preterm labor within the past 7 days, and had no previous experience with preterm labor. DATA SOURCE Taped and tran...

background : the measuring serum ferritin level as a sensitive inflammatory biomarker might effectively predict preterm delivery, but the power and the best cut-off point of this biomarker for predicting preterm labor in iranian population has not been substantially identified. our purpose was to determine what concentrations of serum ferritin could identify patients at risk for preterm deliver...

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...

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...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to describe the bacterial flora of women in preterm labor with or without premature rupture of membranes. METHODS Retrospective studies of 239 patients with preterm labor were performed. RESULTS One hundred and twenty-three of 239 patients with preterm labor (51.5%) had bacterial vaginosis. Seventy of the 239 patients with preterm labor (29.3%) developed p...

Background and objective: Several studies have been conducted about Bacterial Vaginosis and its relation with preterm labor that was accompanied with controversial results. The aim of this study was to compare the frequency of Bacterial Vaginosis and common genitourinary infections between term and pre-term pregnancies. Methods: In a case-control study, 249 pregnant women admitted to Shohadyae ...

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-...