BACKGROUND To evaluate the risk of foetal loss associated with pandemic influenza vaccination in pregnancy. Retrospective cohort study. UK General Practice Research Database Pregnancies ending in delivery or spontaneous foetal death after 21 October 2009 and starting before 01 January 2010. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Hazard ratios of foetal death for vaccinated compared to unvaccinated pr...

BACKGROUND Foetal echocardiography has become a diagnostic method to detect foetal congenital heart disease with high probability. However, it is not only time consuming and but also difficult to visualize outflow tract of foetus early in the second trimester of pregnancy, even for an experienced obstetric ultrasonographer. Recently, many methods for screening foetal cardiac anomalies were expl...

enlargement andreduced corticalvolume arecorrelatesofchronic schizophrenia.We investigatedwhether genetic risk for psychosis is related to differences in foetal brain development asmeasuredby prenatalultrasonography.Routine foetal cerebralmeasures at19^23 weeks of gestationwere comparedbetweenthe offspring of 35 womenwith a historyof psychosis and105 controlwomenmatched for gestational age.Over...

the plant-pathogen interaction is a multifactor process that may lead to resistance or susceptible responses of plant to pathogens. during the arms race between plant and pathogens, various biochemical, molecular and physiological events are triggered in plant cells such as ros signaling, hormone activation and gene expression reprogramming. in plants, micrornas (mirnas) are key post-transcript...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy on foetal growth in preterm infants with gestational age (GA) <33 weeks. POPULATION AND METHODS Prospective observational cross-sectional study from two French perinatal networks cohort of preterm infants. Cases were 358 very preterm infants (GA 24-32 weeks) divided into two groups as maternal smokers (129) and non-smokers...

BACKGROUND The correct definition of foetal age is a substantial problem in forensic medicine, gynaecology, obstetrics and anthropology. OBJECTIVES The goal of the study was the mathematical assessment of the foetal age with the use of thorax selected dimensions. MATERIAL AND METHODS The material consisted of 110 foetuses aged 4-7 months of foetal life, including 50 females in the CRL range...