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Filter by:The purpose of this echocardiographic study is to restudy the longitudinal changes in cardiac size and function during and after pregnancy in healthy women using relatively new parameters of systolic and diastolic function as well as classical measures of left ventricle (LV) function using contemporary echocardiographic machines. We, the researchers at Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, will assess diastolic function and its possible relation to shortness of breath.
This study seeks to elucidate fetal neurobehavioral development in fetuses of opioid dependent women who have either undergone and completed methadone detoxification,or who never received methadone maintenance, and are not methadone maintained at 36 weeks gestation. This research will determine how fetal neurobehavioral functioning in fetuses of opioid dependent, non-methadone maintained women differs from that of fetuses whose opioid dependent mothers are methadone maintained. The project will utilize a state-of-the-art computerized fetal actocardiograph and data analysis program to simultaneously evaluate fetal movement and heart rate, the interaction between the two and maternal physiologic parameters.
The purpose of this trial is to determine whether providing non-contracepting women with gonorrhea or chlamydial infection with advanced provision emergency contraception (APEC) and condoms decreases their risk of becoming pregnant.
The incidence of caesarean section has reached 15-20% in most developed countries. Encouraging vaginal birth after caesareans section (VBAC) has been considered a key component of a strategy to reduce the caesarean section rate. Most medical literature has focused on the efficacy of VBAC in reducing the caesarean section rate and the physical safety of successful VBAC. However, 30%-40% of these women fail to achieve a vaginal delivery. Little is known about how the uncertainty of labour outcome and a failed VBAC impact on the psychosocial function of these women. We propose to study a cohort of women with a prior caesarean section and presenting with a subsequent pregnancy for care. After consent and recruitment, these subjects will be randomly assigned to have a repeat caesarean section or VBAC. The medical outcomes, overall satisfaction of the subjects with the care they received, and the short-term psychosocial function of these subjects will be studied. The result of this study will provide important information that would be useful in assisting women to decide the mode of delivery after a prior caesarean section.
The aim is to test effects of using formal kick counting chart in the third trimester of pregnancy in an unselected population. The research questions are: Does Fetal Movement Counting (FMC): 1. Improve the identification of risk pregnancies/pathology? 2. Affect the women's well-being? 3. Stimulate maternal-fetal attachment antepartum?
It is difficult to predict how a women with an autoimmune disease will do during pregnancy. Some women will improve, others will worsen. Some pregnancies progress normally and others become very complicated. The Duke Autoimmunity in Pregnancy (DAP) Registry will enroll women with autoimmune diseases, such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, and Sjogren's syndrome who wish to become, or already are, pregnant. We will follow these women throughout pregnancy to better understand how their autoimmune disease affects their pregnancy, and vice versa.
The goal of this clinical research study is to learn the results of multimodality (chemotherapy, surgery and radiation therapy) treatment of primary breast cancer that occurs at the same time as pregnancy. Researchers want to evaluate the outcome of labor and delivery as well as evaluate the long-term health outcomes of children exposed to chemotherapy while in their mother's womb.
This proposal is aimed at testing the following hypotheses: 1. Cessation rates will be significantly greater for smokers in a mood management condition versus a health & wellness condition during pregnancy and at 3 and 6 months postpartum. 2. Pregnant smokers who have a higher level of depressive symptomatology will quit significantly less often in the health & wellness condition vs. mood management condition; those with a lower level of depressive symptomatology will not demonstrate this treatment difference. 3. Pregnant smokers who show higher levels of current depression at the start of the intervention will quit significantly less often than those smokers with lower levels. The mood management intervention will result in higher levels of adaptive coping behavior, self-efficacy, social support, and perceived support from the counselor, and lower levels of negative affect, rumination, and perceived stress, than the health & wellness intervention and these variables will be related to abstinence. Thus, we will evaluate the effects of the intervention (health & wellness and mood management) on hypothesized treatment mechanisms, and assess the impact of those mechanisms on abstinence.
The use of dermabond skin adhesive vs. skin staples for the closure of repeat c-section incisions.
Iodine is an essential component of thyroid hormone, which is necessary for many metabolic processes as well as the maturation of the CNS. Deficiencies of iodine have deleterious effects on both pregnant women and infants. The iodine status of the population after implementation of the universal salt iodization program in Zhejiang province has not been known. This study was to determine whether pregnant women show evidence of iodine deficiency, and to examine the correlation between maternal urine iodine concentration and newborn thyroid function.