Susan Sellers

TL;DR: There is a need to maintain a high index of suspicion of abnormal placental invasion in women with both a prior caesarean delivery and placenta praevia and preparations for delivery should be made accordingly.

TL;DR: To describe the management and outcomes of placenta accreta, incretA, and percreta in the UK, placentas are referred to as “percretas”.

TL;DR: A national prospective case-control study in the UK from June 2011 through May 2012 was conducted to estimate the incidence, describe the causative organisms and sources of infection, and identify the risk factors for severe maternal sepsis.

TL;DR: To investigate the factors associated with maternal death from direct pregnancy complications in the UK, a large number of patients were diagnosed with at least one maternal death-related complication during pregnancy.

TL;DR: In both term andPreterm labour there was a rise in PGFM levels with increasing cervical dilatation although the mean values tended to be lower during preterm labour, which may provide an explanation for the effectiveness of prostaglandin synthetase inhibitors in suppressing myometrial activity in pre term labour.