Health Inequities in the Postpartum Period/Pregnancy Interval Care Ashish Premkumar Divya Mallampati Melissa A. Simon Introduction Health disparities in the United States, both in terms of access to health care…
The Fourth Trimester Jeannie C. Kelly George A. Macones Introduction The term, “the fourth trimester,” was originally coined by pediatrician Dr Harvey Karp in his popular parenting books to describe…
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 Anat Shmueli Introduction The puerperium is typically described as the postpartum period approximately 6 to 8 weeks after delivery, during which time…
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 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 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,…
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…
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…
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…