Are we stopping preterm birth trials too early?

May 4, 2017 by in GYNECOLOGY Comments Off on Are we stopping preterm birth trials too early?

With interest we read the Randomised Clinical Trial studying the capacity of 17-alpha-hydroxyprogesterone caproate (17OHP-C) to reduce preterm birth in women diagnosed with a shortened cervix during antenatal care. The…

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Thank you so much for taking the time to read our article so carefully and for reminding us of the danger of interpreting association as causation. Indeed, a retrospective cohort…

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Association is not causation!

May 4, 2017 by in GYNECOLOGY Comments Off on Association is not causation!

I read with great interest the recent article by Tucker Edmonds et al. I would like to congratulate the authors on an important contribution to the literature. Their claim that they…

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Efficacy of ultrasound-indicated cerclage in twin pregnancies: is evidence-based medicine always the right choice?

May 4, 2017 by in GYNECOLOGY Comments Off on Efficacy of ultrasound-indicated cerclage in twin pregnancies: is evidence-based medicine always the right choice?

We read with interest the manuscript “Efficacy of ultrasound-indicated cerclage in twin pregnancies” by Roman et al. In their retrospective study, the authors assessed the outcome of 140 asymptomatic twin pregnancies…

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We thank the authors regarding our paper investigating the risk of stillbirth in patients with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP). To summarize that study, we found that: (1) ICP was…

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Transient excess of liver fat detected by magnetic resonance imaging in women with acute fatty liver of pregnancy

May 4, 2017 by in GYNECOLOGY Comments Off on Transient excess of liver fat detected by magnetic resonance imaging in women with acute fatty liver of pregnancy

Objective Acute fatty liver of pregnancy (AFLP) is a life-threatening complication of pregnancy characterized by acute development of intrahepatocyte microvesicular steatosis. Recovery is associated with normalization of liver blood test…

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