Background Pregnancy is a critical time for fetal programming of hypertension. Nitric oxide deficiency during pregnancy causes hypertension in adult offspring. Objective We examined whether maternal melatonin or N-acetylcysteine therapy…
Background Pregnancy may increase a woman’s susceptibility to HIV. Maternal HIV acquisition during pregnancy and lactation is associated with increased perinatal and lactational HIV transmission. There are no published reports…
Background Long continuous periods of working contribute to fatigue, which is an established risk factor for adverse patient outcomes in many clinical specialties. The total number of hours worked by…
Background Most small (birthweight <10%) for-gestational-age cases occur at term, in uncomplicated pregnancies, and are not identified during prenatal visits as having fetal growth restriction. Hence, they do not benefit…
Background Phase-rectified signal averaging, an innovative signal processing technique, can be used to investigate quasi-periodic oscillations in noisy, nonstationary signals that are obtained from fetal heart rate. Phase-rectified signal averaging…
Background It remains uncertain whether clinical factors known prior to delivery can predict which women are more likely to experience shoulder dystocia in the setting of operative vaginal delivery. Objective…
Background Since its commercial release in 2011 cell-free DNA screening has been rapidly adopted as a routine prenatal genetic test. However, little is known about its performance in actual clinical…
Background Spontaneous preterm birth remains a leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality among nonanomalous neonates in the United States. Spontaneous preterm birth tends to recur at similar gestational ages….
Background Preterm prelabor rupture of membranes is frequently complicated/accompanied by infection and inflammation in the amniotic cavity. A point-of-care determination of amniotic fluid interleukin-6 has been shown to be a…
Background Cervical length at midtrimester is a powerful predictor of preterm birth in twin gestations. However, given the fact that, in some cases, cervical shortening may become evident only later…
