Antenatal maternal administration of dexamethasone to promote fetal lung maturation is associated with diminished birth weight corrected for gestational age.
Perinatal outcomes did not differ regardless of whether betamethasone was given 1 week or more before delivery.
Labor might increase risk of adverse infant outcomes in women who deliver preterm with premature rupture of membranes.
The predictive ability of fetal growth velocity calculations is influenced by the interval between measurements and gestational age at measurement.
Maturation defect, an underestimated placental pathologic condition, occurs in 5.7% of singleton pregnancies and increases stillbirth risk 70-fold and recurrent stillbirth risk tenfold.
Complement activation appears to be important in the mechanism of amniotic fluid embolism, but mast cell degranulation (indicating anaphylaxis) does not.
Pulse pressure, a marker of arterial compliance, is altered early in pregnancies of women who subsequently develop preeclampsia.
Second-trimester serum concentrations of insulin-like growth factor-I were increased and insulin-like growth factor binding protein-1 were decreased before development of clinical manifestations of preeclampsia.
Homocysteine levels at 16 weeks were not different between women who subsequently developed preeclampsia and those who remained normotensive.
Serum soluble Fas levels are significantly higher in women with preeclampsia than in normotensive women.
Complications of preeclampsia and eclampsia are leading causes of pregnancy-related maternal deaths.
Levonorgestrel implants, copper intrauterine devices, and sterilization are all safe and highly effective contraceptive methods.
Estrogen replacement therapy does not have an effect on nocturnal periodic limb movement activity.
Estrogen replacement therapy with or without progestins does not increase recurrence or death in women with a history of endometrial cancer.
Expression of secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor in tissue and peritoneal fluid of women with ovarian endometriomas is suppressed by GnRH agonist treatment.
Improved clinical outcomes and marginally higher resource utilization is observed among academic medical centers compared with community hospitals.
Ginger is effective for treating nausea and vomiting in pregnancy.
Urinary interleukin-8 is not recommended for screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnant women.
Progression of diabetic retinopathy during pregnancy was associated with reduced fetal growth.
At birth, infants with meconium aspiration syndrome had higher absolute nucleated red blood cell counts than infants with asymptomatic meconium aspiration or normal controls.
Self-criticism, marital adjustment, gestational age at time of loss, and time between loss and conception are important predictors of couples' grief during a pregnancy after miscarriage or perinatal death.
The transcervical Foley catheter is as effective as misoprostol for preinduction cervical ripening and it avoids contractile abnormalities associated with misoprostol.
Providing on-request labor epidural analgesia with combined local anesthestic-narcotic to nulliparas in spontaneous labor is not associated with increased frequency of fetal head malpositioning at vaginal delivery.
A deliberate decision to do as many hysterectomies as possible vaginally can increase the proportion of vaginal hysterectomies to more than 90%.
Central diathermy ball cauterization after loop excision may result in an endocervical location of the new squamocolumnar junction.
Interferon beta is effective in treating recurrent human papillomavirus of the cervix.
Galactography is a sensitive diagnostic test in evaluating abnormal nipple discharge and enables localization of the source of secretion.
Bleeding disorders, especially von Willebrand disease, are common in women with menorrhagia.
Monitoring of the pudendal nerve by intermittent transvaginal stimulation is feasible during labor and delivery.
Letters to the Editor: PREECLAMPSIA AND FETAL GROWTH Robert C. Goodlin, Rønnaug Ødegård Obstet Gynecol 2001 97: 640. [Full Text] [PDF] VAGINAL MISOPROSTOL FOR CERVICAL PRIMING BEFORE OPERATIVE HYSTEROSCOPY: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL Peter Scott, Adam Magos, Sangchai Preutthipan, Yongyoth Herabutya Obstet Gynecol 2001 97: 640-a-641-a. [Full Text] [PDF] ETIOLOGY OF THIRD-TRIMESTER MATERNAL HYPERURICEMIA IN NONPREECLAMPTIC TWIN GESTATIONS Shunji Suzuki, Richard L. Fischer, Lawrence S. Weisberg, Mary L. Hediger Obstet Gynecol 2001 97: 641-642. [Full Text] [PDF]
ERRATA: ERRATUM Obstet Gynecol 2001 97: 642. [Full Text] [PDF]
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