Spontaneous Preterm Labor and Delivery
Spontaneous Preterm Labor and Delivery Offer Erez Talia Lanxberg Tal Rafaeli Yehudai Limor Besser Elad Laron Nandor Gabor Than Arnon Wiznitzer Introduction Preterm birth (PTB) is a major global health…
Puerperium and Lactation: Physiology of the Reproductive System
Puerperium and Lactation: Physiology of the Reproductive System Anat Shmueli Introduction The puerperium is typically described as the postpartum period approximately 6 to 8 weeks after delivery, during which time…
Prolonged Pregnancy
Prolonged Pregnancy Eyal Krispin Introduction Prolonged pregnancy’s definition varies; however, postterm is usually defined as a pregnancy that exceeds 42 weeks of gestation or any pregnancy that continues past 294…
Prelabor Rupture of Membranes
Prelabor Rupture of Membranes Ali Alhousseini Dotun Ogunyemi Marta Szymanska Sun Kwon Kim Ray Oliver Bahado-Singh Definitions Prelabor or premature rupture of membranes (PROM) refers to rupture of the chorioamniotic…
Cervical Insufficiency
Cervical Insufficiency Eran Hadar Yinon Gilboa Arnon Wiznitzer Introduction Cervical insufficiency is commonly acknowledged as the uterine cervix’s inability to retain a second-trimester gestation.1 Medically, other than midtrimester pregnancy loss,…
Placental Abruption
Placental Abruption Yinka Oyelese Cande V. Ananth Anthony M. Vintzileos Introduction In normal pregnancy, the placenta separates from the wall of the uterus after delivery of the baby. In the…
Fetal Malpresentation
Fetal Malpresentation Dana R. Canfield Robert M. Silver Introduction In the past, many cases of fetal malpresentation were managed with safe vaginal deliveries. However, over the past several decades, an…
Operative Vaginal Delivery
Operative Vaginal Delivery Eyal Krispin Introduction History It is instructive, in view of the above-stated purpose of examining the current status of operative vaginal delivery (OVD), to briefly review the…
Normal and Abnormal Labor
Normal and Abnormal Labor Anat Shmueli Introduction All approaches to the systematic assessment of labor are grounded in the concept that it is possible to evaluate the progress of labor…
Psychiatric Problems During and After Pregnancy
Psychiatric Problems During and After Pregnancy Nicole Leistikow Patricia F. Widra Rebecca Sokal Alison D. Hermann Introduction Although pregnancy was once thought to be protective in terms of psychiatric illness,…
