Up to one in eight couples experience subfertility, and among them, 25% will be diagnosed with unexplained subfertility [ 1 ]. Subfertility could form a psychologic burden on couples, but also poses an economic burden on society due to substantial …
Authors:
Marjolein van den Tweel, Ellen van den Munckhof, Moniek van der Zanden, Saskia Le Cessie, Jan van Lith, Kim Boers
Open Access
16-05-2024 | Sectio Caesarea | Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Delayed cord clamping (DCC) is the practice of clamping the umbilical cord at least 60 s after birth or after the cessation of umbilical cord pulsation (usually performed within 1–3 min after birth) [ 1 ]. In comparison to immediate cord clamping …
Authors:
Lu Mei, Ning Gu, Yan Zhou, Zhiqun Wang, Ling Yang, Li Chen, Chunxia Li, Yimin Dai
Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is a common gynecologic disorder that affects up to 35% of women during their lifetime [ 1 – 3 ]. SUI is defined as the involuntary leakage of urine resulting from increased intra-abdominal pressure. SUI occurs …
Authors:
Vladislav Volchok, Victoria Kapustian, Ahmet Namazov, Rachel Zangen, Eyal Y. Anteby, Ofer Gemer
Vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia (VaIN), a precancerous lesion associated with human papillomavirus (HPV), impacts women’s health and quality of life. However, the natural progression of VaIN after hysterectomy remains uncertain, due to its low …
During pregnancy, urinary protein excretion rises substantially, primarily due to increased permeability of the glomerular basement membrane and an increased glomerular filtration rate. Moreover, the process of tubular reabsorption of filtered …
Authors:
Inshirah Sgayer, Milton Cohen, Yarden Rosenbaum, Etty Kruzel-Davila, Hadas Shasha-Lavsky, Lior Lowenstein, Maya Frank Wolf
Open Access
12-05-2024 | Premature Birth | Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Twin pregnancies (TwP) carry a higher risk of major obstetrical complications, including preterm birth (PTB), fetal growth restriction (FGR), hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) [ 1 , 2 ]. PTB is the most prevalent complication in TwP …
Authors:
Alexandra Queirós, Laura Gomes, Inês Pereira, Nádia Charepe, Marta Plancha, Sofia Rodrigues, Álvaro Cohen, Marta Alves, Ana Luísa Papoila, Teresinha Simões
Hysterectomy is a therapeutic procedure commonly performed in women with benign gynecological conditions, such as symptomatic leiomyomas, adenomyosis, and pelvic organ prolapse (POP). Routine workup before hysterectomy includes obtaining a …
Authors:
Yang Cao, Honghui Shi, Xiuping Zhuo
10-05-2024 | Pre-Eclampsia | Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Twin pregnancies, accounting for over 3% of pregnancies in the United States and Canada [ 1 , 2 ], are associated with an increased risk of pregnancy complications, such as preterm birth, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, gestational diabetes …
Ectopic pregnancy is a common disease affecting approximately 1% of all pregnancies [ 1 ]. Women who have had an ectopic pregnancy in their first pregnancy are at high risk for adverse birth outcomes in subsequent pregnancies [ 2 ]. While the …
Authors:
Yusuf Başkıran, Kazım Uçkan, İzzet Çeleğen
07-05-2024 | Progestin | Gynecologic Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine
In recent years, assisted reproductive technology has helped many infertile couples achieve clinical pregnancies and live births. However, there are still some couples who have difficulty achieving successful outcomes, because of repeated …
Authors:
Yu Wang, Junting Xu, Xiangjie Yin, Yuan Fang, Kunming Li
Open Access
07-05-2024 | Ovarian Cancer | Gynecologic Oncology
Ovarian cancer (OC) is the deadliest of gynecologic malignancies [ 1 , 2 ], with an average lifetime risk of approximately 1.5%, [ 1 , 3 ]. It is mostly diagnosed at a late stage and the stage at diagnosis is the most important predictor of overall …
Authors:
Gabriel Levin, Yoav Brezinov, Yossi Tzur, Tomer Bar-Noy, Melica Nourmoussavi Brodeur, Shannon Salvador, Susie Lau, Walter Gotlieb
07-05-2024 | Abrasio Uteri | Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Maternal near-miss (a woman nearly dies but survives a life-threatening complication during pregnancy or childbirth within 42 days of termination of pregnancy; MNM) and maternal mortality (death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of …
Authors:
Wipawan Raktong, Rapphon Sawaddisan, Krantarat Peeyananjarassri, Chitkasaem Suwanrath, Alan Geater
Gynecologic cancer seriously endangers women’s health, and the incidence rate of endometrial cancer and ovarian cancer is increasing [ 1 ]. Although HPV vaccine can effectively prevent cervical cancer, the incidence rate of cervical cancer is still …
Endometriosis affects 5–10% of women of childbearing age, with prevalence ranging from 2–11% in asymptomatic women to 5–50% in infertile women and has also been described as a contributing cause of infertility [ 1 – 3 ]. Regarding the German IVF …
Authors:
Deborah van Eickels, Maren Schick, Ariane Germeyer, Sabine Rösner, Thomas Strowitzki, Tewes Wischmann, Beate Ditzen
Open Access
06-05-2024 | COVID-19 | Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Since its first recognition in December 2019 and throughout outbreaks of the different virus variants, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has influenced humanity vigorously around the globe, causing social, economic, political and health …
Due to the frequent use of ultrasonography, the detection rate of adnexal masses during pregnancy has increased dramatically [ 1 ]. It has been reported that the prevalence of adnexal masses varies between 0.2 and 2% throughout pregnancy [ 2 ].
Authors:
Rıza Dur, Erhan Demirdag, Ozge Yucel Celik, Ertugrul Karahanoglu, Gamze Dur, Cem Yagmur Ozdemir, Aykan Yucel, Ozlem Moraloglu Tekin
Vulvar lichen sclerosus (VLS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the skin and mucous membranes that is characterized by a lichenoid inflammatory pattern. This inflammatory reaction leads to fibrosis and scarring during the disease and can lead …
Authors:
Philipp Meyer-Wilmes, Julia Wittenborn, Tomáš Kupec, Rebecca Caspers, Elmar Stickeler, Séverine Iborra
The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines recommend that women be offered lifestyle interventions, physical and behavioral therapies, and medication before surgical options are considered. Still 11–19% of women are …
Authors:
Luka Matak, Jan Baekelandt, Maša Šimičević, Magdalena Matak, Mislav Mikuš, Slavko Orešković
Mothers experience stress when their newborn is admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). It is simple to think that in this setting, postpartum depression (PPD) in women may be more prevalent. A recent study evaluated the prevalence of …
Authors:
Mariam Kawafha, Dua’a Al Maghaireh, Najah Sami Shawish, Yara Hamadah, Zeena Hamadah, Abedelkader Al kofahi, Rama Ashraf Al Mushasha