Aim: Fetuin A is a multifunctional protein which marker of pathological calcification in several diseases. This study aimed to evaluate serum fetuin level term pregnancies with grade 3 placental calcification.
 Material and Method: Fifty-seven pregnant women who applied obstetrics outpatient clinic for routine pregnancy follow-up at were included this study. The was designed prospectively....

OBJECTIVE Corin, an atrial natriuretic peptide-converting enzyme, has been found to promote trophoblast invasion and spiral artery remodeling. Yet, elevated maternal plasma atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and corin levels have been reported in pregnancies complicated by pre-eclampsia (PE). The aim of this study was to investigate longitudinal changes in maternal plasma levels of corin and mid-...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate gestation-specific risks of stillbirth, neonatal and post-neonatal mortality. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of 171,527 notified births (1989-1991) and subsequent infant survival at one year, from community child health records. SETTING Notifications from maternity units in the North East Thames Region, London. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The incidence of births, stillbirth...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the management and outcomes of a series of human immunodeficiency virus-(HIV-) infected women whose pregnancies were complicated by preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM). STUDY DESIGN We conducted a retrospective chart review of all women with confirmed HIV infection who had a pregnancy complicated by PPROM remote from term. PPROM remote from term was defined as...

to evaluate the value of random urinary protein creatinine ratio in prediction of 24h proteinuria in hypertensive pregnancies. method: random urine samples and routine 24h urine collections were collected from hypertensive pregnant women (n=100). reliability of random urinary protein-creatinine ratio was assessed by receiver operator characteristic (roc) curve to detect significant proteinuria ...

the purpose of this study was to determine whether sectioning the cervical septum is associated with intraoperative bleeding, incompetent cervix, and secondary infertility. in this prospective observational study, fourteen women with complete septate uterus who had a history of repeated pregnancy loss and infertility were treated hysteroscopically. preoperative history included 35 pregnancies o...