Improving the systems for caring for obstetric patients at high risk for hemorrhage is important in the fight against maternal mortality.
Attempted suicide during pregnancy is associated with an increase in premature labor, low birth weight, and respiratory distress syndrome.
The increase in infants' birth weight among working pregnant women did not correlate with leave supported by social benefit programs.
In the U.S. Army, contemporary methods of cervical cancer screening performed every 2 years are cost-effective when incorporating salary and health care costs.
Classifying hydatidiform moles by ploidy identifies women with a very low risk of persistent trophoblastic disease.
Methotrexate, bleomycin, and etoposide regimen could be considered as a therapy for patients with drug-resistant and recurrent gestational trophoblastic neoplasia.
Invasive and in situ vulvar carcinomas increased in incidence by 20% and 411%, respectively, during the past 28 years.
Human immunodeficiency virus-infected women have more vulvar, vaginal, and anal intraepithelial neoplasia compared with high-risk human immunodeficiency virus- uninfected women.
Multiparous women with induced labor have a shorter active phase of labor than those with spontaneous labor.
Spontaneous labor without maternal complications is the most frequent cause of preterm birth and also the subgroup most frequently associated with neonatal mortality.
Ductus venosus Doppler velocimetry shows an important correlation with umbilical artery pH at birth in absent or reversed end-diastolic flow in the umbilical arteries.
Undercoiling and overcoiling of the umbilical cord are both associated with an increased risk for adverse perinatal outcome.
Surgical factors such as operative time and blood loss are strongly associated with increased hospital charges in women undergoing hysterectomy.
Each of the 5 levator ani subdivisions can be identified in magnetic resonance images, with characteristic features seen in different scan planes.
Diabetic women in the United States receive less contraceptive counseling than nondiabetic women.
There are significant differences in female germ cell tumor incidence rates by race/ethnicity and histology; survival rates have improved but vary by race/ethnicity and age.
Racial and ethnic and socioeconomic differences in prenatal test use are mediated by faith and fatalism, value of testing information, and perceived risk of miscarriage.
A history of spontaneous miscarriage is associated with an increased risk of aneuploidy in subsequent pregnancies.
Fractional excretions of vascular endothelial growth factor and soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase 1 are increased in women with severe preeclampsia at the time of clinically manifest disease independent of proteinuria.
Protease inhibitor exposure in women infected with the human immunodeficiency virus has no effect on glucose intolerance in pregnancy.
Antibiotic use by pregnant and lactating women is common; their teratogenic and toxic risk profiles should be considered to minimize risks associated with their use.
In developing countries, the use of vaginal chlorhexidine treatment has shown strong potential to improve a number of maternal and newborn pregnancy outcomes.
This essay is the national winner of a contest sponsored by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' Junior College Advisory Council.
Pharmacists are not ethically justified in refusing to dispense emergency contraception and should be held accountable if they act in this way.
This article provides an overview of the diagnosis, staging, and treatment of cervical carcinoma.
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