Listeriosis is a foodborne disease that occurs in immunocompromised patients. Pregnant women are a high-risk group for the disease. Listeria infection during pregnancy is uncommon in China because of dietary habits, with little clinician attention and minimal therapeutic options due to its population-specific nature.This article studies the clinica...
Preeclampsia is one of the most common types of pregnancy disorders, and it is essential to know its cardiovascular complications. Therefore, we aimed to compare echocardiographic findings in women with late preeclampsia and healthy pregnant women. In this case-control study, 80 women with late preeclampsia and 80 healthy pregnant women were random...
Multiple factors are thought to affect a woman's sensation of pain during the process of labor. Birthing balls are round exercise balls upon which a woman sits during labor and performs different movements such as rocking back and forth and pelvic rotation. Midwives and nurses have been using birthing balls (also known as Swiss balls) to increase m...
Many very preterm infants are treated with phototherapy (PT) for hyperbilirubinemia and it has been reported that PT can negatively affect gut perfusion. Thus, our aim was to evaluate the occurrence of feeding intolerance in the course of PT in these patients. We retrospectively studied infants born at 25+0-31+6 weeks from November 2017 to April 20...
To evaluate the effect of kangaroo mother care (KMC) versus traditional care (TC) on aEEG activity and neurobehavior in preterm infants. A prospective randomized control single-blinded trial conducted in a tertiary level neonatal intensive care unit between October 2019 and October 2020. Preterm infants with gestational age of 31-33 weeks were rand...
To evaluate perinatal outcomes in fetuses with severe late-onset fetal growth restriction. This was a retrospective and observational cohort study in which pregnant women diagnosed with late-onset fetal growth restriction assisted at perinatal maternity birth from 2010 to 2017 were included. The outcomes were intensive care unit (ICU) admission and...
To present information on neonatal respiratory inhibition (NRI) to the medical staff caring for infants. The author reviewed investigations of the above conditions. NRI is defined as severe hypoxemia accompanied by clinical manifestations of central cyanosis and a decrease in SpO2 to less than 70%. Neonatal respiratory inhibition consists of respir...
Chorioamnionitis is a risk factor for fetal and neonatal outcomes. Therefore, predicting histological chorioamnionitis (HCA) and neonatal outcomes using clinical parameters could be helpful in management and preventing morbidities. To determine if parameters of clinical chorioamnionitis (CCA) would be associated with HCA and neonatal outcomes. In t...
Several studies link maternal cardiovascular disease (CVD) to maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. This study describes the profile of maternal, obstetric, and neonatal outcomes among pregnant women with CVD in a tertiary hospital in the Philippines. It identifies the clinical and sociodemographic variables associated with these outcomes. A ...
To explore the cytochrome P450 family 27 subfamily A member 1 (CYP27A1) gene mutations in Chinese women with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) and the correlation between CYP27A gene mutations and BA (bile acid) level changes. In this study, the entire coding region of the CYP27A1 gene was sequenced in 151 Han Chinese women with ICP and 1...
