Aim: To evaluate maternal-fetal risks and pregnancy outcomes in multiple pregnancies.
 Material Method: The study included 226 patients with pregnancies who applied to the Perinatology clinic of Izmir Tepecik Training Research Hospital between January/2020 December/2022. data were recorded evaluated retrospectively using hospital database.
 Results: Of patients, 211 twins, 14 triplets...

INTRODUCTION The pregnancy complications preeclampsia, gestational hypertension, small for gestational age infants (SGA) and pre-term birth (PTB) affect approximately 21% of all pregnancies. The Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor family (VEGF) is implicated in the pathogenesis of these complications. We aimed to evaluate the placental mRNA expression of VEGFA, PGF, FLT1 and KDR in pregnancies c...

OBJECTIVE To perform comparative analyses of obstetric and perinatal outcomes between type 1 diabetic pregnancies and the general obstetric population in Sweden between 1991 and 2003. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This was a population-based study. Data were obtained from the Medical Birth Registry, covering >98% of all pregnancies in Sweden. A total of 5,089 type 1 diabetic pregnancies and 1,2...

Pheochromocytoma is a catecholamine-producing adrenal tumor, being a rare cause of hypertension in pregnancy. It's prevalence in hypertensive patients is 0.2%, and 0.002% of pregnancies. We follow hypertensive pregnant 24 year old on her third pregnancy, admitted to 33 weeks with hypertensive emergency cesarean section indicated by fetal distress evolving with acute pulmonary edema in the post-...

Maternal serum alpha 1-antitrypsin concentrations were measured serially in pregnant women who were normotensive and those with mild, moderate, and severe hypertension of pregnancy from 27 weeks' gestation to term. alpha 1-antitrypsin concentrations increased with advancing gestation in all four groups. In addition, the hypertensive pregnancies showed higher than normal concentrations at each s...

Introduction: Hypertensive disorder of pregnancy complicates around 5-10% all pregnancies. Hyperuricemia is one the common findings in pre-eclampsia. The uric acid level pre-eclamptic women increased before onset hypertension and proteinuria. increase serum associated with an risk adverse fetal outcomes like IUGR, prematurity, IUFD severity maternal hypertensive disorders pre-eclampsia, severe ...

OBJECTIVE To address the possible risk factors, eventual pregnancy outcomes, and probable troubles in follow-ups of pregnancies complicated by an isolated single umbilical artery and to provide data on Turkish cases in such an aspect that ethnic divergences may have influence. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 16568 singleton pregnancies that were delivered between May 2006 and May 2013 were re...

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy affect up to 15% of pregnancies and the most severe form, pre-eclampsia, is the leading cause of maternal death in the UK today. Pre-eclampsia is a multisystem disorder affecting virtually every organ and system in the body, with hypertension and proteinuria, the traditional diagnostic features, representing two facets of a complex pathophysiological process....

OBJECTIVE To assess whether the effect of pre-pregnancy overweight or obesity on maternal complications and perinatal outcomes is modified by Indigenous status. DESIGN, PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING Population-based study using de-identified aggregate data on pregnancies resulting in singleton births from Indigenous (n = 13 582) and non-Indigenous (n = 241 270) women from the Queensland Perinatal ...