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Biomedical aspects of pregnancy

This section considers studies regarding biomedical and therapeutic aspects of pregnancy.

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  1. The incidence of severe maternal morbidity is increasing in high-income countries as a consequence, in part, of increased obstetric intervention and increasingly complex medical needs of women who become pregn...

    Authors: Marie Furuta, Jane Sandall and Debra Bick

    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2012 12:125

    Content type: Research article

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  2. Spontaneous coronary and vertebral artery dissections are rare events occurring most commonly in otherwise healthy women during pregnancy or the post-partum period.

    Authors: Marta Cenkowski, Megan daSilva, Kimberly-Ann Bordun, Farrukh Hussain, Iain DC Kirkpatrick and Davinder S Jassal

    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2012 12:122

    Content type: Case report

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  3. Many stillbirths show evidence of fetal growth restriction, and most occur at preterm gestational age. The objective of this study is to compare birth weights at preterm gestational ages between live births an...

    Authors: Xun Zhang, KS Joseph, Sven Cnattingius and Michael S Kramer

    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2012 12:119

    Content type: Research article

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  4. Postpartum hemorrhage, a major cause of maternal death and severe maternal morbidity, increased in frequency in Canada between 1991 and 2004. We carried out a study to describe the epidemiology of postpartum h...

    Authors: Azar Mehrabadi, Jennifer A Hutcheon, Lily Lee, Robert M Liston and KS Joseph

    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2012 12:108

    Content type: Research article

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  6. Instrumental deliveries are commonly performed in the United Kingdom and Ireland, with rates of 12 – 17% in most centres. Knowing the exact position of the fetal head is a pre-requisite for safe instrumental d...

    Authors: Deirdre J Murphy, Gerard Burke, Alan A Montgomery and Meenakshi Ramphul

    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2012 12:95

    Content type: Study protocol

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  7. Pain relief during labour is a topic of major interest in the Netherlands. Epidural analgesia is considered to be the most effective method of pain relief and recommended as first choice. However its uptake by...

    Authors: Liv M Freeman, Kitty WM Bloemenkamp, Maureen TM Franssen, Dimitri NM Papatsonis, Petra J Hajenius, Marloes E van Huizen, Henk A Bremer, Eline SA van den Akker, Mallory D Woiski, Martina M Porath, Erik van Beek, Nico Schuitemaker, Paulien CM van der Salm, Bianca F Fong, Celine Radder, Caroline J Bax…

    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2012 12:63

    Content type: Study protocol

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  8. Smoking paradoxically increases the risk of small-for-gestational-age (SGA) birth but protects against preeclampsia. Some studies have reported a "U-shaped" distribution of fetal growth in preeclamptic pregnan...

    Authors: Susan R Kahn, Nisha D Almeida, Helen McNamara, Gideon Koren, Jacques Genest Jr, Mourad Dahhou, Robert W Platt and Michael S Kramer

    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2011 11:91

    Content type: Research article

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