Optimizing Pregnancy Loss Care
Early pregnancy loss is common, occurring in 15% to 25% of all clinically recognized pregnancies. Clinical presentations vary and diagnosis is achieved by an ultrasound alone, or with serial ultrasounds…
OBSTETRICS
Procedural Abortion
Procedural abortion is the process of aspirating or extracting a pregnancy from a gravid uterus. This procedure is one of the most common procedures people who can become pregnant will…
Post-Abortion Care in Abortion-Restrictive and Abortion-Protective States
Abortion access in the United States has broadened beyond brick-and-mortar health centers to include increasing numbers of telemedicine abortions, self-managed abortions, and travel over long distances to obtain in-person abortion…
Medication Abortion
Abortion access is a critical component of comprehensive reproductive health care. During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID -19) pandemic, telehealth emerged as a promising solution to expand abortion access, which…
Rhesus D Immune Globulin in Early Pregnancy
This article reviews the actively evolving clinical practice of Rhesus D (RhD) testing and RhD immune globulin (RhIg) prophylaxis in the context of first trimester bleeding events, including abortion. It…
Challenges to Family Planning Education and Future Workforce Effects
This article reviews the challenges facing family planning education in the setting of abortion care, legal restrictions, and institutional policies. It discusses the impact of incomplete residency training on the…
Prenatal diagnosis of familial 46,X,del(X)(q27.1) with an Xq27.1-q28 deletion and an Xp22.33 microduplication in an asymptomatic mother carrier
A 36-year-old, gravida 3, para 1, woman underwent amniocentesis at 20 weeks of gestation because of advanced maternal age. Amniocentesis revealed a karyotype of 46,X,del(X)(q27.1)[18]/45,X[2]/47,X,del(X) (q27.1),+del(X) (q27.1)[1] ( Fig. 1 )….
Rapid prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome in a fetus with bilateral pleural effusion and hydrops fetalis in the early second trimester by quantitative fluorescent polymerase chain reaction using the DNA extracted from uncultured amniocytes
A 37-year-old, primigravid woman underwent amniocentesis at 16 weeks of gestation because of bilateral pleural effusion in the fetus and a high risk (1:31) result of trisomy 21 determined by…
Successful management of a pregnancy women with sudden onset of acute pancreatitis: A case report and literature review
Abstract Objective Hypertriglyceridemia (HTG) is a rare cause of acute pancreatitis (AP) in pregnancies and has emerged as an aggravating factor of severe pancreatitis. To enhance the diagnosis and management…
Diagnosis and treatment of a serous cystadenofibroma-like tumor potentially arising from urinary tract endometriosis: A case report
Abstract Objective Urinary tract endometriosis affects 0.3–12 % of all cases of endometriosis. Medications have limited efficacy in treating advanced disease. Serous cystadenofibroma is a rare benign variant of ovarian epithelial…
