Nifedipine for preterm labor is associated with less frequent neonatal morbidity than ritodrine.
Intravaginal indomethacin is more effective than intrarectal and oral indomethacin for delaying preterm labor.
Depression and anxiety in early pregnancy are associated with the risk for preeclampsia.
Women with pregnancy-induced hypertension have a reversible abnormality in cutaneous vascular reactivity that may contribute to increased vascular resistance seen in this condition.
Implementing a protocol of group B streptococcus screening markedly reduced early-onset neonatal sepsis.
Sonographic measurements between 34 and 37 weeks' gestation can predict birth weight more accurately than measurements later in gestation when gestation-adjusted projection is used.
Ovariectomy, hysterectomy, prescription for prevention purposes, previous oral contraceptive use, and opinions regarding hormone replacement therapy lead to its long-term use.
Breast cancer survival after postmenopausal hormone use might result from earlier detection through mammography, because possible hormonal influence on tumor biology and prognosis was not supported by our data.
Elevated plasma total homocysteine and decreased serum folate concentrations are risk factors for recurrent early pregnancy loss.
Human immunodeficiency virus infection does not impair clinical response to antibiotics for pelvic inflammatory disease recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Vesical neck mobility is greater during a Valsalva maneuver than with a cough in continent women but not in stress-incontinent women.
Prospects for normal fertility are excellent after conservative surgery for borderline ovarian tumors.
Microvessel intensity is significantly higher in early-invasive than in low-malignant-potential epithelial ovarian carcinoma, and might differentiate them.
Intraoperative palpation has poor sensitivity and poor positive predictive value for detecting metastasis of gynecologic malignancies to lymph nodes.
Funipuncture does not seem to be associated with increased risk of procedure-related complications or pregnancy losses in fetuses with single umbilical arteries.
Fetuses of smokers have increased blood erythropoietin concentrations, suggesting subacute hypoxia; fetal erythropoietin correlates positively with fetal cotinine.
Low fetal oxygen saturation measured at birth seems associated with low fetal pH and base excess values, but its predictive value for acidosis is limited, particularly if acidosis is metabolic.
Vasa previa can be detected in some asymptomatic women during the second trimester and generally is associated with excellent outcome with antepartum diagnosis.
The British strategy for prenatal detection of Down syndrome is not economically beneficial in the United States, even under the most ideal ultrasound accuracy scenarios.
Interleukin-8 synthesis by human lower uterine segment fibroblasts is upregulated by combinations of interleukin-1, platelet-derived growth factor-AB, and transforming growth factor-1.
A substantial number of cesarean deliveries done because of lack of labor progress are performed in the latent phase.
The gravid uterus may be at risk of incomplete rupture when the thickness of the lower uterine segment is 2.0 mm or less in the late second trimester as measured by transvaginal ultrasonography.
An enzymatic urine screening test had inadequate sensitivity as a rapid screen for bacteriuria in pregnancy.
Skin blood flow, a potential measure of fetal cardiovascular responses to asphyxia, is significantly increased during asphyxia produced by umbilical cord occlusion in fetal lambs.
Anterior sacrospinous vaginal vault suspension restores the normal vaginal axis and has a low rate of recurrent prolapse.
Avoiding episiotomy and forceps delivery and delivering more slowly over the perineum do not increase risk to infants during birth or cause pelvic floor damage to childbearing women.
Mentors rate their students higher than nonmentors, and this effect dominates any gender differences in evaluation.
A meta-analysis of 29 published studies indicates that physically demanding work is significantly associated with preterm birth, hypertension or preeclampsia, and small for gestational age birth weights.
Letters to the Editor: COMBINATION ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY IN HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS-INFECTED PREGNANT WOMEN Elena Visconti, Lucia Pastore Celentano, Enrica Tamburrini, Paola Villa, Giancarlo Oliva, Orazio Genovese, Carlo Fundaro, Joseph P. McGowan, Marilyn Crane, Andrew A. Wiznia, Steve Blum Obstet Gynecol 2000 95: 636-637. [Full Text] [PDF] CERVICAL RIPENING AND LABOR INDUCTION WITH A CONTROLLED-RELEASE DINOPROSTONE VAGINAL INSERT Edward Hughes, Luis Sanchez-Ramos, Andrew M. Kaunitz Obstet Gynecol 2000 95: 637-638. [Full Text] [PDF]
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