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Filter by:The pregnancy may activate flares of certain autoimmune diseases such as lupus. The influence of pregnancy on the evolution of ITP was never studied while this pathology affects firstly women old enough to procreate. Also, the influence of ITP on pregnancy (risk of obstetric complications) and on newborns (risk of neonatal thrombocytopenia) is rather unknown and never studied in a prospective study. The realization of a prospective study to answer these questions is necessary to allow us to inform better the patients affected by ITP and to define better in this context the strategy of supervision of the mother, the foetus and the newborn. The highlighting of risk factors of ITP flare or obstetric or neonatal complications will indeed allow the implementation of prevention measures. The conclusions of this study will allow us to adapt national guidelines for ITP during pregnancy.
The goal of Advanced Fetal Imaging - Phase II is to advance fetal MRI imaging by designing MRI coils specifically for pregnant women and testing recently developed MRI image acquisition techniques. The investigators aim to more reliably obtain higher quality fetal MRI images when compared to current clinical fetal MRI.
Medication during pregnancy can lead to the occurrence of birth defects or neonatal pathologies. Thalidomide or diethylstilbestrol (Distilbene°) are prominent examples. Many drugs remain insufficiently evaluated in this area and doctors are too often deprived of relevant information when prescribing drugs in pregnant women.
Pregnancy is considered a cardiovascular (CV) stress test, and complicated pregnancies are associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) later in life. Moreover, it is known that often the pregnancy induced CV adaptation does not resolve completely after a short postpartum (PP) period and it is not clear whether these induced changes will resolve over a longer period of time (i.e. in the upcoming months/years after delivery). Understanding the cardiac adaptation during pregnancy and the reversal process in the postpartum period, as well as the factors that influence this these processes, may provide us not only insight in this mechanism, but may help us in identifying factors that may be target points for modification.
Demonstrate that with concomitant and synchronous use of supracervical balloon and vaginal misoprostol for induction of labour, vaginal delivery is achieved in less time compared with vaginal misoprostol alone.
Induction of labor at term versus expectant management among women with abnormal maternal biochemical markers. A randomized controlled trial
This study set out to investigate whether antenatal ultrasound evaluation of the Fetal Head Circumference (FHC) could potentially possess a predictive role in determining women at increased risk for operative delivery or cesarean section.
This prospective non-intervention cohort study will enroll women in the first or early second trimester of pregnancy and follow them through delivery (or end of pregnancy) and 1 year postpartum. Infants will also be followed until 1 year postpartum. Detailed medical and obstetrical information will be collected, as well as biological samples, in order to better elucidate the biological mechanisms leading to preterm delivery among Zambian women, in an effort to identify new strategies for prevention.
Individuals undergoing In Vitro Fertilization must undergo controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) to produce enough quality eggs for fertility treatment. Ovarian follicular responsiveness to COH with gonadotropins is extremely variable between patients and even from cycle to cycle for the same patient. Achieving an ideal follicular response is critical to the success of assisted reproduction treatment (ART). Patients have been classified as 'poor', 'normal' or 'high' responders, which dictate the amount of gonadotropins that they receive. It is still important to develop treatments with high efficacy, lower multiple birth rates, and a lower complication rate for each of these groups. In an era of evidence-based medicine and with special emphasis on reducing IVF risks (mainly OHSS and pregnancies with multiples), it is very important to find optimal and safe ovulation induction and triggering regimens for each patient population. The use of GnRH agonist (GnRHa) triggering among high responders in order to reduce or eliminate OHSS is an example of an important breakthrough in the clinical management of IVF patients. Although GnRHa triggering was shown to be as effective as human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) at inducing oocyte maturation more than 20 years ago, its use to trigger ovulation was not possible until the introduction of GnRH antagonists for pituitary suppression. Another prominent trend in ART in recent years has been the introduction of dual triggering, which involves a combination of GnRHa plus hCG for triggering. This regimen creates simultaneous lutenizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) surges by the GnRHa, which resembles physiologic ovulation triggering, together with sustained LH-like activity from the hCG, which stimulates the corpus luteum to excrete sufficient hormonal endometrial support. Since its introduction, dual triggering has been gaining popularity due to outstanding results in retrospective studies among both normal and high responders. Moreover, in spite of the encouraging retrospective reports, prospective randomized controlled trials (RCT) on dual triggering have not been reported to date. The aim of the current proposed study is to compare the efficacy of dual triggering and conventional triggering among the three IVF populations (high, normal and poor responders).
Hypothesis: In Women in the second trimester of pregnancy 5D offers an alternative method for fetal Echocardiography compared to conventional 2D scanning Question: Does 5D software technology is as efficient as 2D scanning in fetal echocardiography of second trimesteric fetuses? Aim: This study aims at assessing the accuracy of performance of the 5D as a new scanning technology in fetal Echocardiography compared to the conventional use of 2D scanning.