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Rita W. Driggers
Researcher at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Publications - 25
Citations - 1321
Rita W. Driggers is an academic researcher from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cephalopelvic disproportion & Prenatal diagnosis. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 24 publications receiving 1233 citations.
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Zika Virus Infection with Prolonged Maternal Viremia and Fetal Brain Abnormalities.
Rita W. Driggers,Cheng-Ying Ho,Essi M. Korhonen,Suvi Kuivanen,Anne J. Jääskeläinen,Teemu Smura,Avi Z. Rosenberg,D. Ashley Hill,Roberta L. DeBiasi,Gilbert Vezina,Julia Timofeev,Fausto J. Rodriguez,Lev Levanov,Jennifer Razak,Preetha Iyengar,Andrew K. Hennenfent,Richard Kennedy,Robert S. Lanciotti,Adre J. du Plessis,Olli Vapalahti +19 more
TL;DR: A case of a pregnant woman and her fetus infected with ZIKV during the 11th gestational week and postmortem analysis of the fetal brain finds substantial brain abnormalities without the presence of microcephaly or intracranial calcifications is described.
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Zika Virus Infection With Prolonged Maternal Viremia and Fetal Brain Abnormalities
Rita W. Driggers,Cheng-Ying Ho,Essi M. Korhonen,Suvi Kuivanen,Annemarjut J. Jääskeläinen,Teemu Smura,Avi Z. Rosenberg,D.A. Hill,Roberta L. DeBiasi,G. Vezina,Julia Timofeev,Fausto J. Rodriguez,Lev Levanov,Jennifer Razak,Preetha Iyengar,Andrew K. Hennenfent,R. Kennedy,Robert S. Lanciotti,A. du Plessis,Olli Vapalahti +19 more
TL;DR: Findings provide additional evidence for the association between congenital ZIKV infection and fetal brain damage and future studies focusing on infection at various gestational ages may provide better insight into the role of ZikV infection in abnormal brain development and further tools for detection.
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Primary Cesarean Delivery in the United States
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To ECC or not to ECC: the question remains
TL;DR: The yield on ECC increases in the setting of unsatisfactory colposcopy; in this situation, there seems less controversy regarding performance of an ECC and Reproducibility of ECC-rendered diagnosis is a concern.
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Preterm induction of labor: predictors of vaginal delivery and labor curves
Maisa Feghali,Julia Timofeev,Chun Chih Huang,Rita W. Driggers,Menachem Miodovnik,Helain J. Landy,Jason G. Umans +6 more
TL;DR: Most women who undergo medically indicated preterm IOL between 24 and 36+6 weeks of gestation deliver vaginally, and the strongest predictor of VD was parity.