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From:International Journal of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology (Vol. 11, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Multifetal gestation is a high-risk pregnancy associated with increased maternal and fetal complications. The rate of multiple pregnancy has dramatically increased during the past decades, along with the...
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From:International Journal of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology (Vol. 10, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Multiple pregnancies are more common in recent days than in the past. Increased maternal age at conception due to delayed childbearing trend has resulted in multifetal gestations. Twin gestation imposes...
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From:Journal of Diabetes Nursing (Vol. 11, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedDiabetes is recognised as the most common pre-existing medical condition to complicate pregnancy in the UK (Mitchell, 2000). It is predicted that the number of women with diabetes in the UK may increase by 48% by 2023...
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From:The Western Journal of Medicine (Vol. 154, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTHE RAPIDLY CHANGING TECHNOLOGY for pregnancy tests has greatly enhanced our ability to confirm early pregnancy not only in the office or laboratory setting but also in the home. Home pregnancy tests were first marketed...
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From:Maternal and Child Health Journal (Vol. 19, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTo describe response rates and characteristics associated with response to the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System study in Ireland (PRAMS Ireland). Using hospital discharge records of live births at a large,...
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From:SAMJ South African Medical Journal (Vol. 112, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedBackground. Antenatal substance use is a significant public health concern in South Africa (SA). Information on smoking, drinking and drug use during pregnancy was collected prospectively for the Safe Passage Study of...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 302, Issue 6786) Peer-ReviewedEctopic pregnancy and trophoblastic disease are discussed in this second part of a series on vaginal bleeding. In ectopic pregnancy, the developing embryo does not implant on the wall of the uterus, but develops...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 34, Issue 5)BOCA RATON, FLA. -- A small pilot study shows the potential of using a bedside pregnancy kit and cervical washings to detect premature preterm rupture of membranes. When used to measure human chorionic gonadotropin...
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From:Journal of Family Practice (Vol. 35, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground. Pregnant teenagers often prolong the interval between suspecting and confirming that they are pregnant. Prior studies suggest a number of potential determinants for this delay but do not specify which ones...
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From:Drug, Healthcare and Patient Safety (Vol. 5) Peer-ReviewedBackground: The harmful effects of medication and licit substance use during pregnancy may potentially constitute a major public health concern. Our study aims to assess risky exposure of Lebanese pregnant women to...
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From:Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences (Vol. 5, Issue 30) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND It was noted in 1951 that although pregnancies persisting beyond 300 days occurred less than 5% of the time, they accounted for 30% of perinatal deaths. In the most recent Technical Bulletin on post-term...
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From:International Journal of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology (Vol. 6, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Anemia during pregnancy is highly prevalent in developing countries like India. Mostly is nutritional, of which iron deficiency anemia is predominant. Pregnancy is a state of hemodilution, also there is...
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From:Journal of Perinatology (Vol. 34, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedOur objective was to systematically review the data interrogating the association between gestational weight gain (GWG) and maternal and child health among women with twin gestations. We identified 15 articles of twin...
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From:International Journal of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology (Vol. 8, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHeterotopic pregnancies are rare combined intra and extrauterine pregnancies, the incidence of which has shown an increase over the past decade with the rising trend in assisted reproductive technologies (0.75-1.5%)....
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From:Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences (Vol. 2, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION: A unique anomaly of multiple pregnancy is conjoined twins. They are derived from single fertilized ovum occurring in 200 to 2,50,000 births with incidence 1 per 50,000 to 1,00,000 live births (1)....
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From:Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy (Vol. 46, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Eva Mautner [a]; Hannah Kalchmair [a]; Alexander Avian [b]; Maria Deutsch [a]; Elfriede Greimel [a]; Philipp Klaritsch (corresponding author) [a] Introduction Monochorionic (MC) twin pregnancies are...
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From:Journal of Perinatology (Vol. 25, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAcardiac twinning is a rare obstetric condition unique to monochorionic twin gestation and the pump twin has high perinatal mortality. We report an acardiac twin pregnancy, in which the pump twin presented with...
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From:BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The current study aimed to estimate the prevalence of alcohol use identified as a risk factor during pregnancies by the antenatal care providers, resulting in live births in British Columbia (BC) and to...
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From:International Journal of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHeterotopic pregnancy is defined as multiple gestation in which intrauterine and extrauterine gestational sacs co-exist. The extra uterine gestational sac is most commonly tubal ectopic pregnancy. We presented case of a...
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From:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 215) Peer-ReviewedThe ICON 25 HCG is a one-step, rapid test for the early detection of pregnancy. It detects the presence of human chorionic gonadotropin within 3 minutes with urine and 5 minutes with serum. The test can be stored at...