GYNECOLOGY
Clinical experience and follow-up with large-scale single-nucleotide polymorphism–based noninvasive prenatal aneuploidy testing
I presume this article was published to inform obstetricians about the performance of the Panorama noninvasive prenatal screening test (NIPT) sold by Natera. As a practicing obstetrician, I have been…
Training for transabdominal villous sampling is feasible and safe
Objective In the near future, the spread of noninvasive prenatal testing will drastically decrease the number of invasive diagnostic procedures currently performed to diagnose aneuploidy. Thus, adequate training will be…
Appropriate indications and alternatives to hysterectomy for benign conditions
In any study, all relevant information needs to be collected and evaluated if the intent is to reach valid conclusions. In this study, to conclude that inappropriate surgeries were performed,…
Ectopic pregnancy in an incarcerated fallopian tube
A 39-year-old woman with a history of 1 spontaneous vaginal delivery at term presented to our unit with a 5-year history of irregular menstruation and vaginal bleeding. Her history included…
The effect of latency of time, centrifugation conditions, supernate filtration, and addition of protease inhibitors on amniotic fluid interleukin-6 concentrations
Objective Amniotic fluid specimens are commonly frozen and stored for research purposes. A previous study examined the stability of certain cytokines in stored amniotic fluid samples for prolonged periods of…
Vasculoplacental complications in pregnant women with HIV infection: a case-control study
Objective Data from the international literature suggest that there may be an association between maternal human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and vasculoplacental complications during pregnancy. Studies on this subject have…
The relationship between timing of postpartum hemorrhage interventions and adverse outcomes
Objective We sought to determine whether the timing of balloon tamponade (BT) and uterine artery embolization is associated with morbidity among women with postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). Study Design This is…
