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Katharine D. Wenstrom
Researcher at University of Alabama at Birmingham
Publications - 84
Citations - 3317
Katharine D. Wenstrom is an academic researcher from University of Alabama at Birmingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pregnancy & Amniocentesis. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 84 publications receiving 3175 citations. Previous affiliations of Katharine D. Wenstrom include University of Alabama & University of Chicago.
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Preventing the First Cesarean Delivery: Summary of a Joint Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, and American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Workshop
TL;DR: Key points were identified to assist with reduction in cesarean delivery rates including that labor induction should be performed primarily for medical indication; if done for nonmedical indications, the gestational age should be at least 39 weeks or more and the cervix should be favorable, especially in the nulliparous patient.
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Elevated second-trimester amniotic fluid interleukin-6 levels predict preterm delivery.
Katharine D. Wenstrom,William W. Andrews,John C. Hauth,Robert L. Goldenberg,Mary B. DuBard,Suzanne P. Cliver +5 more
TL;DR: Elevated early second-trimester amniotic fluid interleukin-6 levels are associated with preterm delivery, confirming that in some women this indicator of very early intrauterine inflammation predicts birth before 34 weeks' gestation.
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Prothrombin Gene G20210A Mutation and Obstetric Complications
Robert M. Silver,Yuan Zhao,Catherine Y. Spong,Baha M. Sibai,George D. Wendel,Katharine D. Wenstrom,Philip Samuels,Steve N. Caritis,Yoram Sorokin,Menachem Miodovnik,Mary Jo O'Sullivan,Deborah L. Conway,Ronald J. Wapner +12 more
TL;DR: There was no association between the prothrombin G20210A mutation and pregnancy loss, preeclampsia, abruption, or SGA neonates in a low-risk, prospective cohort, and data raise questions about the practice of screening women without a history of thrombosis or adverse pregnancy outcomes for this mutation.
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Preventing the First Cesarean Delivery: Summary of a Joint Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, and American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Workshop
TL;DR: The prudent use of labor induction, and the expectation that well-defined criteria be met before CD is performed for failure of induction or failure of progress in labor, may actually prevent many unnecessary first CDs.
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Association of the C677T methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase mutation and elevated homocysteine levels with congenital cardiac malformations
TL;DR: Fifty percent of these isolated congenital cardiac defects were associated with either the C677T MTHFR mutation or elevated amniotic fluid homocysteine levels, or both, and this finding adds to what is already known about the multiple and complex biochemical and developmental functions of the homocy steine pathway.