Background: 79% of the pregnant women suffer from sleep disorders. Sleep disorders before, during, and after childbirth can affect the quality of life of pregnant women. This study aimed to evaluate the quality of life of pregnant women with sleep disorders in the second trimester. Materials and Methods: This study was cross-sectional study. Data was collected with continuous sampling method ,f...

UNLABELLED Uterine rupture is a rare life-threatening complication. It mainly occurs in the third trimester of pregnancy and is rarely seen during the first or second trimesters. Our centre experienced three important cases of uterine rupture. FIRST CASE spontaneous uterine rupture at 14 weeks of pregnancy, which was diagnosed at autopsy. It was misled by the ultrasound finding of an intraute...

OBJECTIVE Second-trimester sonographic findings of fetal trisomy may include structural abnormalities or sonographic markers of fetal aneuploidy. Unlike structural anomalies, sonographic markers of fetal aneuploidy are insignificant by themselves with regard to outcome, are nonspecific--most frequently seen in normal fetuses, and are often transient. Our objective was to review the second-trime...

1 Department of Growth and Reproduction, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark 2 Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark 3 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fetal Medicine Unit, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark 4 Department of Fetal Medicine, University Hospital of Copenhagen...

Pathologic exa mination o f t he p roducts o f em bryos a nd fetuses, both from spontaneous abortions (SAbs) and terminations of pregnancy, has become increasingly important. While s uch exa mination wa s o nce p erformed p rimarily for t he p urpose o f f urthering s cientiἀc un derstanding o f prenatal human development, the practical medical applications of this knowledge have become clear a...

Review of 214 fetal necropsies performed in the department of pathology, University of Aberdeen, showed 40 cases of chorioamnionitis or intrauterine pneumonia, five of which were associated with Streptococcus milleri. In two cases there was good evidence to implicate S milleri as the cause of infected abortion while in the other cases its pathogenic role was less clear.

OBJECTIVE The use of human fetal pancreatic tissue may provide a potential source of transplantable beta-cells as a therapy for type 1 diabetes. Human fetal pancreas has a remarkable capacity to grow and differentiate in vivo and has been shown to reverse diabetes in rodents. However, it is known that human fetal pancreas obtained from the second trimester of gestation is immunogenic and is rej...