Twin pregnancies: incidence and outcome - Riyadh Armed Forces Hospital experience.

A retrospective study of twin births at the Armed Forces Hospital, Riyadh, from January 1987 to December 1996 was carried out. There were 62 739 deliveries and 598 sets of twins. The incidence of twins was one in 105 maternities.

Emergency peripartum hysterectomy.

A total of 54 166 mothers delivered at the Riyadh Armed Forces Hospital between 1990 and 1997, including 6119 (11.3%) caesarean sections. Emergency peripartum hysterectomy for obstetric haemorrhage was carried out in 16 cases (0.

Impact of gestational diabetes on lipid profiling and indices of oxidative stress in maternal and cord plasma.

Objective: To study the effect of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) on indices of oxidative stress and lipid profiles in maternal and cord blood samples.

Methods: Blood samples were collected from 40 normal pregnant women and 46 women with GDM during the period 1998 through to 1999 at the Armed Forces Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The GDM patients were subdivided into 2 groups: patients receiving insulin treatment (GDM-I, N=19) and patients under control diet (GDM-D, N=27).

Changing trends in perinatal deaths at the Armed Forces Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

A total of 104522 babies were delivered at the Riyadh Armed Forces Hospital between 1979 and 1998, including 807 stillbirths and 658 neonatal deaths. The 20-year period was divided into four 5-yearly intervals for comparative purposes. The overall Perinatal Mortality Rate (PMR) for infants weighing 500 grams or more ranged between 20.

Cesarean delivery of the second twin after vaginal delivery of the first twin.

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