BACKGROUND: Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a rare and sometimes fatal systolic heart failure that affects women during late pregnancy or the early postpartum period. The risk factors contributing to this condition are advanced maternal age, multiparity, administration of tocolytic agents, underlying cardiac disease, iatrogenic volume overload, preeclampsia, hypertension. In patients with g...

Aim: To elucidate factors associated with a poor neonatal prognosis in preterm placental abruption. Methods: A multicenter retrospective study was conducted. A total of 247 cases with preterm placental abruption during 2009, derived from an electronic database constructed by the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, were investigated as the subjects of this study, and were divided into th...

The variety of factors controlling the onset of parturition, äs well äs the very complex mechanisms which physiologically maintain pregnancy by inhibiting uterine contractions are only partially understood today. As long äs the triggering mechanisms, and the conditions favoring timely and early labor are incompletely known, symptomatic therapeutic attempts aim at blocking unwanted contractile a...

OBJECTIVE: To explore the discrepancies regarding screening, diagnosis & management of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) among postgraduate trainees Obstetrics Gynaecology (OBG) and Medicine disciplines. METHODS: This multicentre cross-sectional study was conducted from 1st to 31st August 2022. The questionnaire diagnosis, GDM, postnatal follow-up with neonatal care were distributed medic...

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Concentrations Are Increased in Women with Preterm Delivery But Not in Those Who Respond to Tocolytic Treatment, Xiao Yan Zhong, Wolfgang Holzgreve, Irene Hoesli, and Sinuhe Hahn ( Laboratory for Prenatal Medicine, University Women’s Hospital, and Department of Research, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland; 2 University Women’s Hospital, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland; ...