Parental refusal of prenatal screening for aneuploidies.

Objectives: To analyze the reasons for refusal of aneuploidy screening in a multicultural Middle Eastern population.

Methods: The study included patients delivering in a university hospital, who had refused aneuploidy screening during their pregnancy. We evaluated through a questionnaire submitted during the postpartum period the sociodemographic characteristics, beliefs, attitudes, and the main reason underpinning their choice.

Management of preterm labor: Clinical practice guideline and recommendation by the WAPM-World Association of Perinatal Medicine and the PMF-Perinatal Medicine Foundation.

This practice guideline follows the mission of the World Association of Perinatal Medicine in collaboration with the Perinatal Medicine Foundation, bringing together groups and individuals throughout the world, with the goal of improving the management of preterm labor. In fact, this document provides further guidance for healthcare practitioners on the appropriate use of examinations with the aim to improve the accuracy in diagnosing preterm labor and allow timely and appropriate administration of tocolytics, antenatal corticosteroids and magnesium sulphate and avoid unnecessary or excessive interventions. Therefore, it is not intended to establish a legal standard of care.

Perinatal outcome in prenatally diagnosed cardiac rhabdomyoma case series.

Objective: This study aims to determine the characteristics and outcome of prenatally diagnosed cardiac rhabdomyomas.

Study Design: This retrospective descriptive study includes cases referred to our university hospital. We studied sonographic characteristics of rhabdomyoma along with the neonatal outcome.