Elevated maternal serum interleukin-6 concentrations appear to be associated with imminent preterm delivery.
Azithromycin has equivalent efficacy and significantly fewer side effects than erythromycin in the treatment of chlamydial cervicitis complicating pregnancy.
Successful pregnancy outcomes may be achieved by a neighborhood-based collaborative prenatal practice.
The average and incremental cost-effectiveness of mandatory screening for human immunodeficiency virus during pregnancy may be influenced by patient behavior.
Women with a history of severe low back pain during pregnancy have a high risk of back pain in future pregnancies as well as in general.
Trauma, pulmonary emboli, and maternal cardiac disease are the most common causes of maternal mortality in Utah.
Eighty-nine percent of Down syndrome-affected pregnances could be detected by maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein, hCG, insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3, and maternal age.
Plasma angiotensin II levels reflect more accurately than renin the low activity of the renin-angiotensin system in the first trimester of pregnancy and in preeclampsia.
Intraumbilical injection of oxytocin is successful in the management of retained placenta.
A progressive increase and subsequent decrease in nuchal translucency thickness occurs with advancing gestation in most normal fetuses, but the gestational age at peak-thickening is fetus-specific.
Clinical estimation of birth weight is at least as accurate as ultrasonic estimation in birth weight greater than 2500 g and less accurate in birth weight less than 2500 g.
Three-dimensioinal ultrasonography provides a new means of visualizing surface anatomic structures of the fetus in utero.
Patients' reports of urinary incontinence symptoms are good predictors of quality of life as measured by more complex standardized measures.
The posterior vaginal compartment contributes to the urethral closure mechanism in continent women.
Estrogen-induced increase in triglyceride plasma levels appears to produce triglyceride-rich and cholesteryl ester-poor low-density lipoprotein particles that are of small size in postmenopausal women.
Compared with women whose husbands had undergone vasectomy, women who had undergone tubal sterilization had an increased 5-year risk of hysterectomy.
Routine evacuation of the uterus in a hospital is common in miscarriage treatment in Finland, but there are no clinical trials providing empirical support for this practice.
Patients with extraovarian primary peritoneal carcinoma and those with epithelial ovarian cancer have few epidemiologic differences.
Telomerase activation is a relatively early event in cervical carcinogenesis and correlates well with grade of cervical lesions.
Microsurgical precision and clinical efficacy of laser excisional conization may be assisted by intraoperative endocervical crypt staining with methylene blue solution.
Flourescence spectroscopy should be considered a cost-effective alternatiove to colposcopy for the diagnosis of cervical squamous intraepithelial lesions.
Atypical glandular cells of undetermined significance is a Papanicolau test diagnosis that deserves close attention and appropriate evaluation based on clinical and pathologic risk factors.
Gential involvement is frequent during toxic epidermal necrolysis but rarely leads to symptoms.
Mothers whose babies are admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit complain about their obstetric care, even when their children ultimately do well.
This simple technique consistently results in the clean, symmeterical periumbilical extension of a midline incision.
Intradermal infiltration proximal to the implants provides adequate anesthesia, allows palpation of the capsules throughout removal, and reduces edema.
This new remote-controlled ultrasound unit allows imaging of bladder neck behavior during bladder emptying in the physiologic sitting position.
International medical practice in developing countries may benefit physicians in the United States and their patients.
Residents in obstetrics and gynecology are being educated to be able to be providers of preventive and ambulatory primary health care for women.
Nationally, there are substantial differences in resident salary, frequency of night call, vacation, moonlighting policy, gender mix, and training experiences.
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