a prospective study of 550 consecutive mothers delivered in amin ob. gyn center of isfahan university was performed to determine the relationships between maternal anemia, placental weight and neonatal birth weight. the important findings were marked placental hypertrophy in anemic mothers. (r= -/9.95) .it is probable that in anemic mothers placental hypertrophy is a compensatory mechanism resp...

placenta plays a vital role in normal fetal development and failure of placenta to gain weight and insufficiency of its function can result in fetal disorders. we performed this study to determine placental weight and factors associated with low weight placentas. in a longitudinal cross-sectional study, women with single pregnancy, and gestational age between 37-42 weeks were studied. the subje...

placental site trophoblastic tumor (pstt) is a very rare variant of gestational trophoblastic tumor. it can occur after normal termination of pregnancy or spontaneous abortion and ectopic or molar pregnancy. there is a wide range of clinical manifestations from a benign condition to an aggressive disease with fatal outcome. one of the most important characteristics of pstt, unlike other forms o...

background: respiratory syncytical virus infection is the most common cause of bronchiolitis and viral pneumonia in infancy. objective: to investigate the placental transfer of rsv-specific igg in iranian mothers. methods: the antibodies were measured in sera of 146 mother/newborn pairs using a commercially available indirect enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (elisa). the studied subjects were ...

background & objectives : to determine the prevalence of placental abruption, due to its maternal & fetal known adverse outcomes, the present survey was carried out on pregnant women referred to the obstetric center of kermanshah university of medical science (motazedi hospital) in 2001_2002. materials and methods: this study was a descriptive one, having surveyed all the inpatient pregnant wom...

background: measuring of maternal serum pregnancy-associated plasma protein-a (papp-a) in first trimester can be a way for early detection of adverse prenatal outcome due to faulty placenta.objective: the aim was to determination of association between placental thickness in second trimester with low level of papp-a in first trimester.materials and methods: in this cohort study, serum papp-a of...

background: cryptorchidism is a common malformation in neonates; surgery or medical treatments are applied during childhood. untreated cryptorchid testes are in the risk of intratubular germ cell neoplasia (igcn) and consequently invasive testicular tumors which could be shown by immunohistochemistry staining for placental like acid phosphatase (plap) marker. objective: we designed this study t...