Showing papers in "European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology in 1996"

TL;DR: The median concentration of fasting plasma homocysteine was significantly higher in women who experienced placental abruption or infarction in their first pregnancy than in Women who had the same event after one or more uncomplicated pregnancies.

TL;DR: This article aims at reviewing data concerning the presence of potential sensory stimulation in the fetal milieu, the sequential functional development of the sensory systems and physiological and behavioral responses of fetuses to various types of stimulation.

TL;DR: Pregnant women with iron deficiency anemia were sequentially selected from the antenatal clinic and assigned either to ISC (study group) or to ferrous sulfate (control group) to evaluate the safety and efficacy of intravenous iron sucrose complex.

TL;DR: The main offender in the etiology of this disorder is trauma to a pregnant uterus, especially after curettage in puerperium or after missed abortion, whereas the role of infection in traumatic intrauterine adhesions should be viewed with caution.

TL;DR: Lumbar spine bone density falls during pregnancy in both women who are treated with heparin and those who are not, and breast feeding delays recovery to baseline values until suckling stops.

TL;DR: This study supports reports on the benefits of myomectomy, performed with the appropriate technique, in patients with otherwise unknown cause of infertility and shows, additionally, that characteristics of myomata, such as number and size, may influence postmyomectom pregnancy rates.

TL;DR: The aim of this review is to summarise current knowledge of the molecular mechanisms of apoptosis and its roles in human endometrium and ovary physiology.

TL;DR: It is found that Wharton's jelly is abundant in collagen and GAGs, and the EPH-gestosis-associated alterations in Wh Barton's jelly correspond to 'premature ageing' of this tissue.

TL;DR: The present study does not reveal any clear adverse reactions (fetal and neonatal toxicity, including birth defects) due to the in utero exposure to quinolones, and termination of pregnancy because of such exposure is not indicated.

TL;DR: It is suggested that unruptured interstitial pregnancies now can be managed with local MTX administration of 1 mg/kg body weight under transvaginal ultrasound or under laparoscopy procedure, particularly attractive in patients, where the only alternative to therapy is laparotomy with cornual resection.

TL;DR: It appears that the majority of obstetric patients with severe diseases are referred to suitable care, but a small proportion of women who had to change their type of care registered a significant higher lethality.

TL;DR: It is obvious that the probability of a cervical precancer lesion to progress into an invasive disease increases with the severity of the atypia, and another distinct prognostic factor is HPV type, HPV 16 lesions possessing a significantly higher risk for progression than infections by other HPV types.

TL;DR: In most women with regular but heavy periods no abnormality of the hypothala-mopituitary axis can be demonstrated, and the abnormality is therefore thought to lie at the level of the endometrium itself.

TL;DR: The heart rate response to the Valsalva maneuver is blunted in mid-pregnancy, possibly due to changes in the baroreflex and increased maternal blood volume, and heart rate variability is significantly reduced in the second trimester.

TL;DR: Experiments have proven that focal apoptosis is under control of genetic, hormonal and local tissue factors, androgens and gonadotropin releasing hormones are potentiating apoptosis of the follicle.

TL;DR: While reduction in maternal mortality after such a short implementation period is difficult to demonstrate, all MotherCare demonstration projects showed improvements in referral and in reduction in perinatal mortality.

TL;DR: Congenital cervical incompetence seems associated with a low collagen concentration in the cervical connective tissue in the non-pregnant state.

TL;DR: Although the exact etiology for this condition has yet to be elucidated, the presence of mast cells supports an association with other genitourinary inflammatory syndromes such as interstitial cystitis; and allows for speculation about a possible role played by mast cell activation in the etiology of VV.

TL;DR: The uterine anomalies are associated with a lowered rate of embryo implantation, and this implantation rate improves when the anomaly can be treated (septate uterus).

TL;DR: The combined procedure including pelvic examination and serum CA-125 determination, as a screening method for the early detection of ovarian cancer had sensitivity 100, specificity 99%, and P.P.V. 22%.

TL;DR: Delivery bleedings which persist despite of an efficient medical treatment must be offered embolization without delay, and mortality and morbidity as well as hysterectomy will not exist anymore.

TL;DR: This case is the first recorded of uterine rupture after administration of oral mifepristone and vaginal misoprostol, and physicians have amended their regimen for drug-induced abortion in cases of second trimester termination of pregnancy.

TL;DR: There was more AR expression in the proliferative phases than in the secretory phases: in the late secretory phase there was no immunostaining in any of the cell types, and the cyclic pattern of AR expression is merely an epiphenomenon to progesterone production, or whether androgens play a causal role in the Cyclic modulation of endometrium is subject to further research.

TL;DR: In pregnancies complicated by chronic hypertension, a deficiency of the oxidative system balance is detectable, which consistently progresses in the second and third trimester, strongly suggesting a failure of the protective mechanisms.

TL;DR: UDCA is more effective than SAMe in controlling pruritus and total bile acids, which is considered a prognostic parameter in ICP with respect to the fetus, and should be introduced as an effective and safe treatment for ICP.

TL;DR: The data analysis suggest that the correction of mullerian anomalies does not improve the pregnancy rate, but only the pregnancy outcome of the patients.

TL;DR: In comparison with the five methods, the use of extraamniotic ethacridine, intravenous concentrated oxytocin, and balloon was found to provide more effective treatment than intracervical PGE2 and misoprostol in terms of achievement of abortion within 24 and 48 h.

TL;DR: The increased frequency of small-for-gestational-age infants observed in all three study groups is an expression of impaired placental implantation and remodelling processes that manifest themselves in the form of changes in some of the factors in plasma and placenta extract that are involved in these processes.