Neonates with cerebral white matter injury have significant increases in nucleated red blood cells, but the predictive value in identifying injury is poor.
Threatened miscarriage is associated with a slight increase in obstetric complications.
The risk of pregnancy-related death among women with multifetal pregnancies is more than 3 times that of women with singleton pregnancies.
Membrane sweeping at initiation of formal labor induction increases spontaneous vaginal delivery rate and patient satisfaction.
Compared with general obstetrician- gynecologists, subspecialists are less likely to make payments on professional liability claims, but they may make greater payments per claim lost.
A single A>G nucleotide substitution at position -670 in the maternal but not neonatal TNFRSF6 gene coding for Fas is associated with a higher risk of HELLP syndrome.
Maternal circulating intracellular adhesion molecule concentrations are increased with smoking during pregnancy and most likely are not placental in origin.
Ectopic risk for U.S. pregnancies conceived with assisted reproductive technology was 2.1, with rates varying by procedure type, the woman's reproductive health characteristics, and embryo implantation potential.
The slope of serial human chorionic gonadotropin values for women with ectopic pregnancy is similar to that with viable pregnancy or completed miscarriage in 21% and 9% of cases, respectively.
The hospitalization rate for pelvic inflammatory disease in California has declined between 1991 and 2001.
Vulvodynia, correlated with history of chronic yeast vaginitis, urinary tract infection, and poor quality of life, shows individual association with fibromyalgia and irritable bowel syndrome.
Increasing early access to current prenatal care systems is insufficient to minimize racial disparity in perinatal mortality.
The hospital rate of gestational pyelonephritis meets both clinical and technical requirements as a quality indicator for ambulatory maternal care.
Affluent women in Canada are not more likely to have labor induction or cesarean delivery compared with less affluent women.
Homozygosity for the 5G allele of the plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 gene is associated with normal glucose tolerance in pregnant women.
Continuously dosed oral contraceptives containing norethindrone acetate resulted in more bleeding-free days than levonorgestrel preparations, but the addition of 10 g ethinyl estradiol did not improve bleeding patterns.
Cancer patients having major abdominal surgery are at increased risk of developing a postoperative pulmonary embolism with intermittent pneumatic compression alone for thromboembolic prophylaxis.
A nomogram for predicting the distant and local relapse of vulvar cancer at 2 and 5 years was developed and externally validated.
In the first trimester, the term "cystic hygroma" should not be used because septations are present in all fetuses with increased nuchal translucency.
Prenatal diagnosis of Dandy-Walker malformation based primarily on a keyhole-shaped, as opposed to a trapezoidal-shaped, interhemispheric gap frequently cannot be confirmed at autopsy.
Triplet growth curves were derived that may be useful for identification of abnormal growth in triplet fetuses.
Women with atypical glandular cells diagnosed by cervical cytology are at high risk for underlying pathology, and several markers put patients at more substantial risk.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists should add sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination statement and issue policy statements supporting laws that protect our lesbian and transsexual patients and their families.
The effectiveness of screening for fetal aneuploidies can be enhanced by combining firstand second-trimester studies in different ways.
Surgical modifications have lessened the morbidity associated with radical surgery for vulvar cancer; patients with large primary tumors or gross lymphadenopathy should be treated with chemoradiation.
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