Objective The purpose of this study was to determine whether a customized standard of large-for-gestational age (LGA) identifies pregnancies with increased perinatal risk. Study Design We evaluated 7510 estimates of…
Objective Many fibroids regress with pregnancy or postpartum involution. We sought to identify factors that might inhibit or enhance this natural regression. Study Design We used a prospective cohort of…
Objective To examine the association between electronic fetal heart rate monitoring and neonatal and infant mortality, as well as neonatal morbidity. Study Design We used the United States 2004 linked…
Objective The objective of the study was to examine the relationship between induced abortion training and views toward, and use of, office uterine evacuation and misoprostol in early pregnancy failure…
Approximately half of HIV-discordant heterosexual couples in the United States want children. Oral antiretroviral preexposure prophylaxis, if effective in reducing heterosexual HIV transmission, might be an option for discordant couples…
The Pedersen hypothesis was formulated more than 50 years ago. Jorgen Pedersen primarily cared for women with type 1 diabetes. He suggested that fetal overgrowth was related to increased transplacental…
Although gynecologic cancers account for only 10% of all new cancer cases in women, these cancers account for 20% of all female cancer survivors. Improvements in cancer care have resulted…
THE ISSUE: Defined as delivery at 34 0/7 -36 6/7 weeks, late preterm births have increased by 15% between 1992 and 2002 and currently they occur in about 8% of…
Ultrasonography is commonly utilized in obstetric practice to estimate fetal weight at term. The seminal paper by Lubchenco et al introduced into the field of obstetrics what is commonly referred…
As an obstetrician, present at the dawn of intrapartum electronic fetal monitoring (EFM), I had every expectation that EFM would improve perinatal outcomes and that these effects would be validated…
