Disease relevance of Hospitals, Maternity

• In the group who had gestational diabetes, glucose tolerance remained abnormal by the Mercy Maternity Hospital criterion in 28% of those who had been delivered vaginally and in 43% of those delivered by cesarean [1].
• SETTING--Infertility clinic, Aberdeen Maternity Hospital. SUBJECTS--17 women with minimal-mild endometriosis and 10 women with tubal infertility [2].
• A maternity hospital outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus [3].
• Twenty-four consecutive patients with ovarian cancer and 34 with benign cysts of ovary were recruited prospectively at Gynecologic Oncology Departments of SSK Ankara Maternity Hospital and Hacettepe University School of Medicine between 2001 and 2002 [4].
• METHODS: A retrospective chart review was conducted of all cases of acute uterine inversion recorded at the Grace Maternity Hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 1977 to 2000 [5].

High impact information on Hospitals, Maternity

• To investigate the determinants of fetal maturation of infants born to adolescent mothers, we studied the obstetric population attended at the Maternity Hospital of Lima, Peru. From this population we selected for inclusion in this study a sample of 412 adolescent mothers ranging in age from 13 to 15 yr [6].
• STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study of singleton births at term between 1992 and1999 in 22 Scottish maternity hospitals among primigravid women induced with prostaglandin [7].
• SETTING: A maternity hospital in Tel Aviv that is a major tertiary care and referral center [8].
• METHOD: A total of 441 pregnant women attending the State Maternity Hospital in Bordeaux were interviewed during the third trimester of pregnancy, then at 3 days and 6 weeks after birth [9].
• All women were treated at the IVF Unit, Lis Maternity Hospital. Records were studied retrospectively [10].

Biological context of Hospitals, Maternity

• To assess vertical transmission, sera from 105 unselected, consecutive parturient women attending a public maternity hospital were paired with cord bloods and examined for the presence of TTV DNA [11].
• SETTING: Obstetric Medicine Unit at Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital. SAMPLE: Data were obtained on 57 pregnancies in 50 women over six years [12].
• SETTING: General Hospital, Colombo; De Soysa Maternity Hospital for Women; Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children. RESULTS: 171 strains of S aureus were isolated from specimens processed in the laboratory of the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine Colombo, during a 14-month period [13].
• Numerical X-chromosome anomalies at the maternity hospital of Lima [14].
• STUDY DESIGN: A prospective, observational study was performed on patients admitted with hemodynamically stable tubal pregnancy to the Fourth Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ain Shams University Maternity Hospital, from September 1999 to August 2000, and fulfilling the inclusion and exclusion criteria [15].

Anatomical context of Hospitals, Maternity

• METHODS: After doing hysterosalpingography to confirm patency of both fallopian tubes, 324 mg of quinacrine were introduced with a modified IUD inserter in 30 patients who came to Concepción Palacios Maternity Hospital seeking permanent sterilization, between June 2000 and September 2001 [16].
• The morphologic structure of the conus medullaris and filum terminale was investigated by dissection in 123 human fetuses, obtained from Selçuk University, Faculty of Medicine and Maternity hospital of Konya between 1992-1995 [17].
• Screening nuclear sex in buccal mucosa cells in 2,213 apparently normal newborns up to 24 hours from the Maternity Hospital of Lima showed that 3 newborn males out of 1,124, had chromatin-positive cells (2.66 per thousand) [14].

Associations of Hospitals, Maternity with chemical compounds

• SETTING: Labour Ward, Aberdeen Maternity Hospital. SUBJECTS: 230 primigravidae at terms with PROM, 115 allocated to be treated conservatively and 115 to be managed with prostaglandin treatment [18].
• In six maternity hospital 516 mothers during labour received 50% nitrous oxide and 50% oxygen (Entonox) continuously at 5 litres/minute through a single-end nasal catheter and intermittently by a mouthpiece for a mean duration of 3 hours 30 minutes (513 mothers) [19].
• SETTING: John Radcliffe Maternity Hospital, Oxford, England. PARTICIPANTS: Pregnant and puerperal women who required acute or chronic antihypertensive treatment with nifedipine (n = 46) or methyldopa (n = 26), respectively [20].
• METHODS: The study was done in the outpatient clinic of the City Maternity Hospital, Helsinki, Finland. Subdermal implants releasing the progestin ST 1435 were inserted in 30 women for 2 years of use [21].
• SETTING--John Radcliffe Maternity Hospital. PATIENTS--25,568 Oxford District Health Authority residents who delivered at the John Radcliffe Maternity Hospital, and 6775 residents who had a termination of pregnancy, between 1 January 1981 and 31 December 1985 [22].

Gene context of Hospitals, Maternity

• During a maternity hospital outbreak of colonization/infection due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), mothers and babies from 35 families were known to have been discharged colonized with MRSA [23].
• METHODOLOGY: During this study, enzyme activity was measured in 53/59 (89.8%) hospital-diagnosed G6PD-deficient neonates (34 Malays, 12 Chinese, and seven other ethnic groups) born consecutively in the Kuala Lumpur Maternity Hospital. All neonates, except one, were males [24].
• SETTING: One maternity hospital in Paris, France. PATIENT(S): Eleven consecutive mothers having delivered triplets between October 1988 and February 1990 [25].
• We report our experiences at the IVF centre, Maternity Hospital, Kuwait of mimicking the high level of activity of a large IVF unit [26].
• We surveyed malformations prospectively in 10,000 births, in 3 consecutive series, corresponding to 3 maternity hospital in Cubatão, under working definitions and norms taken from the ECLAMC (Latin American Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations) [27].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Hospitals, Maternity

• During the years 1979-1982 cervical smears were taken from 3974 women at the cervical pathology unit at the Serlin Maternity Hospital, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv [28].
• METHODS: A randomized-controlled study of women undergoing cesarean section in Sultan Qaboos University Hospital Maternity Unit [29].
• The routine method of induction at Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital is now by the use of prostaglandin E2 pessaries [30].
• PURPOSE: To determine efficacy and safety a randomized comparison of continuous infusion versus intermittent injection of epidural bupivacaine for labor analgesia was performed in the Maternity Hospital, Thapathali Kathmandu. METHODS: Twenty healthy parturient received a loading dose of 10 ml of epidural 0.1% bupivacaine with 25 mg of pethidine [31].
• METHODS : We prospectively studied the charts of term babies born in Taif Maternity Hospital (1640 m above sea level) between 1/1/2004 and 31/10/2004 who developed RDS and required mechanical ventilation [32].

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