Objective The purpose of this study was to identify differences of early-pregnancy body fat percentage and body mass index (BMI) between obese women that experienced preeclampsia and those who did not….
Objective Most studies of tocolytics are underpowered to assess drug effects on rare adverse neonatal outcomes. Our aim was to optimize statistical power to assess the influence of sulindac on…
Objective We sought to evaluate if the placental alpha-microglobulin (PAMG)-1 test vs the combined traditional diagnostic test (CTDT) of pooling, nitrazine, and ferning would be a cost-beneficial screening strategy in…
Objective Antenatal magnesium (anteMg) is used for various obstetric indications including fetal neuroprotection. Infants exposed to anteMg may be at risk for respiratory depression and delivery room (DR) resuscitation. The…
Materials and Methods Study population Study participants were recruited from 2 patient populations as reported previously. The longitudinal cohort was a nested case-control study of 60 women who were sampled serially…
Objective Clinical management of preeclampsia has remained unchanged for almost 5 decades. We now understand that maternal endothelial dysfunction likely arises because of placenta-derived vasoactive factors. Activin A is one…
Objective The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of sexual intercourse on the accuracy of quantitative fetal fibronectin (qfFN) in the prediction of spontaneous preterm birth (sPTB)…
Objective The purpose of this study was to evaluate the labor curves of patients who undergo preterm induction of labor (IOL) and to assess possible predictors of vaginal delivery (VD)….
Objective Primary human trophoblasts were previously shown to be resistant to viral infection, and able to confer this resistance to nontrophoblast cells. Can trophoblasts protect nontrophoblastic cells from infection by…
Materials and Methods Patients The current study included all samples from participating centers received for commercial testing from March 1, through Nov. 30, 2013, that received an NIPT result. This…
