Roberto Romero

TL;DR: A customized cervical length standard that considers relevant maternal characteristics and gestational age at sonographic examination and improves the distinction between patients at risk for impending preterm delivery in those who have an episode of preterm labor is created.

TL;DR: When tested for bioactivity at nontoxic concentrations, fructosazines were more effective inhibitors of IL-2 release from PHA-activated T cells than d-glucosamine and constitute a novel class of immunomodulators.

TL;DR: The main objective was to determine the sensitivity and specificity of FINE in the prenatal detection of congenital heart disease (CHD).

TL;DR: It is suggested that chorioamniotic membranes are a source of SP‐A in the amniotic fluid with advancing gestation, and not only thatSP‐A expression is a part of the innate immune response deployed during chorioammiotic inflammation, but also that chorionic trophoblasts and macrophage expression is up‐regulated following lipopolysaccharide treatment.

TL;DR: A novel customized PRB/NICHD fetal growth standard from fetal data in an African American population without assuming proportionality of the effects of covariates is developed, and without assuming that these effects are equal on all centiles of weight; an easy‐to‐use centile calculator is provided.