Daniel Giordano

TL;DR: In this paper, the association between caesarean delivery and pregnancy outcome at the institutional level, adjusting for the pregnant population and institutional characteristics, was assessed for the 2005 WHO global survey on maternal and perinatal health, comprising 24 geographic regions in eight countries in Latin America.

TL;DR: Caesarean delivery independently reduces overall risk in breech presentations and risk of intrapartum fetal death in cephalic presentations but increases the risk of severe maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality in cEPhalic presentation.

TL;DR: High coverage of essential interventions did not imply reduced maternal mortality in the health-care facilities the authors studied, and the maternal severity index (MSI) had good accuracy for maternal death prediction in women with markers of organ dysfunction.

TL;DR: Preeclampsia and gestational hypertension shared many risk factors, although there are differences that need further evaluation, and both conditions significantly increased morbidity and mortality.

TL;DR: There was asymmetric distribution of growth of EFW: a slightly wider distribution among the lower percentiles during early weeks shifted to a notably expanded distribution of the higher percentiles in late pregnancy.