Little et al pose an important question: would the universal offer of carrier screening for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) during prenatal care be cost-effective, ie, provide good value for money…
This issue includes 8 Fast-Track articles given as oral presentations at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine in February 2010. Three of these articles focus on an…
This month’s issue includes 8 articles that describe research presented at the 2010 meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) in Chicago on February 4-6. From 1256 abstracts submitted,…
We read with interest the article of Lain et al, “Neonatal adiposity following maternal treatment of gestational diabetes with glyburide compared with insulin.” The authors concluded that glyburide and insulin…
The most common etiology of postpartum hemorrhage is uterine atony, although hematologic disorders may be present. A 36-year-old nulliparous woman underwent puerperal hysterectomy caused by uncontrolled postpartum hemorrhage. One day…
We read with interest the article by Walsh and Walsh, who performed a metaanalysis on 3183 women who underwent cesarean section and compared extraabdominal with intraabdominal uterine repair at cesarean….
We read with interest the article by Larson et al, which states that the superior suspension points for anterior wall mesh operations are below the normal upper vagina. They imply…
I read with interest the article, “Maternal polymorphisms for methyltetrahydrofolate reductase and methionine synthetase reductase and risk of children with Down syndrome” and congratulate the authors for such a nice…
In the roundtable that follows, clinicians discuss a study published in this issue of the Journal in light of its methodology, relevance to practice, and implications for future research. Article…
With great interest we read the important article of Korenromp et al presenting the psychologic outcomes and predictors for adverse outcomes in 147 women 4, 8, and 16 months after…
