Borzouyeh Poursharif

TL;DR: Over 80% of a large cohort of women with HG reported that HG caused a negative psychosocial impact, consisting of socioeconomic changes, job loss or difficulties, attitude changes including fear regarding future pregnancies and psychiatric sequelae.

TL;DR: Extreme weight loss is common among women with HG, suggesting that HG is a form of prolonged starvation in pregnancy and that the long-term effects of this condition on women and their offspring warrant further investigation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a study to describe characteristics of women who terminated their pregnancies secondary to hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) and found that the most prominent reasons given for the terminations were inability to care for the family and self (66.7%), fear that they or their baby could die (51.2%), or that the baby would be abnormal (22.0%), these same women were three times as likely to state that their health care providers were uncaring or did not understand how sick they were.

TL;DR: Over the past 20 years, multiple treatments have been used for women with HG, with a trend toward treatment with reportedly more effective modalities, such as IV hydration and serotonin inhibitors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a study to describe characteristics of women who terminated their pregnancies secondary to hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) and found that the most prominent reasons given for the terminations were inability to care for the family and self (66.7%), fear that they or their baby could die (51.2%), or that the baby would be abnormal (22.0%), these same women were three times as likely to state that their health care providers were uncaring or did not understand how sick they were.