Silent chorioamnionitis and associated pregnancy outcomes: a review of clinical data gathered over a 16-year period.

Objective: To assess neonatal outcomes and associated findings in pregnant women identified after delivery as having had underlying subclinical chorioamnionitis by either histology or bacterial culture.

Methods: In 16 years, 8974 clinical, histological, and bacterial culture data were obtained retrospectively.

Results: Placental histology was analyzed in 4237 pregnancies (2785 term and 1452 preterm) and 4737 amniotic cavity cultures were obtained during 5446 cesarean deliveries (3268 term and 1469 preterm).

Prevalence and psychosocial background of anxiety and depression emerging during the first trimester of pregnancy: data from a Hungarian population-based sample.

Background: There are few surveys of antenatal depression and anxiety in Eastern-European countries. The aim of the present study was to gather prevalence data from a Hungarian sample and to search for associations between antenatal depression/anxiety and some psycho-social variables.

Subjects And Methods: A population-based monitoring system was created, covering every pregnant woman in the town of Szombathely, Western-Hungary for symptoms of depression and anxiety during the first trimester of pregnancy.

Screening pregnant women for group B streptococcus infection between 30 and 32 weeks of pregnancy in a population at high risk for premature birth.

Objective: To assess the benefits of a chemoprophylaxis program based on screening women for group B streptococcus (GBS) infection between 30 and 32 weeks of pregnancy in a population with a high rate of premature births.

Methods: From 1995 to 2011, 24 950 women were screened for GBS infection between 30 and 32 weeks of pregnancy at Markusovszky Teaching Hospital, Szombathely, Hungary. Those who tested positive, and those who tested negative but were at risk of infecting their newborns, underwent intrapartum prophylaxis.

Obstetrical Management of an Extremely Overweight Pregnant Woman (184 kg bw) with Special Attention on Thromboprophylaxis.

The 27-year-old pregnant woman has been overweight since her childhood. Endocrinological assessments did not confirm hormonal disease. Her pregnancy was without complication.

Metabolic syndrome in normal and complicated pregnancies.

Background: The aim of our study was to elucidate the association of the metabolic syndrome with the risk of unsuccessful pregnancy.

Methods: This was a retrospective observational study conducted at Markusovszky Teaching Hospital, Szombathely, Hungary, a tertiary health care center. During the study period of 2007-2011 (5 years), 7373 pregnancies were followed.

Histological chorioamnionitis is associated with cerebral palsy in preterm neonates.

Objective: To determine the interaction between histological chorioamnionitis and unexplained neonatal cerebral palsy among low birth weight infants.

Study Design: We studied 141 preterm infants below 1500 g delivered between 2000 and 2010. Clinical data, neonatal neuroimaging, laboratory results, the histopathological features of the placenta and gastric smear within the first hour of delivery, were evaluated.

Association between health beliefs and health behavior in early pregnancy.

Folate-supplementation significantly reduces the risk of neural tube defects. The aim of this research was to reveal associations between health beliefs and folate -supplementation as well as other elements of health behavior among Hungarian women early in their pregnancy. Three-hundred and seven women in early pregnancy completed the second part of Health and Illness Scale.

Effects of depression, anxiety, self-esteem, and health behaviour on neonatal outcomes in a population-based Hungarian sample.

Objective: To investigate possible associations of maternal antenatal depression, anxiety and self-esteem with negative neonatal outcomes controlling for the effects of demographic covariates and health behaviour in a Hungarian sample.

Study Design: A population-based monitoring system was established in 10 districts of health visitors in Szombathely, Hungary, covering every woman registered as pregnant between February 1, 2008 and February 1 2009. Three hundred and seven expectant women in the early stage of their pregnancy were surveyed using the Short Form of Beck Depression Inventory for the measurement of depression and the Spielberger Trait-Anxiety Inventory for the measurement of anxiety.

Barriers of antenatal folate-supplementation: The role of depression and trait-anxiety on periconceptional folate-intake.

Abstract Objective. The aim of the research was to reveal the effect of antenatal depressive symptoms and trait-anxiety on folate supplementation. Higher levels of depression, and trait-anxiety were hypothesized to be associated with insufficient folate intake among pregnant women in early pregnancy.

[Effect of demographic factors on folate-supplementation and health-behavior of pregnant women].

Unlabelled: The aim was to scrutinize associations between folate-supplementation and other elements of health-behavior and demographic factors in pregnant women.

Methods: A population-based monitoring system was established in 10 districts of health visitors in Szombathely, Hungary. The system covered every woman registered as pregnant between 1st February 2008 and 1st February 2009.

[Prevalence of depression and anxiety in early pregnancy on a population based Hungarian sample].

Unlabelled: In Hungary, no survey has been conducted so far concerning of the incidence of depression and anxiety during pregnancy.

Aim: Besides determining missing data, the aim was to scrutinize their socio-demographic relations.

Methods: A population-based monitoring system was established in 10 districts of health visitors in Szombathely.

[The metabolic syndrome and the risks of unfavourable outcome of pregnancy].

Unlabelled: The metabolic syndrome is defined by abdominal obesity, elevation of blood pressure, fasting glucose and triglycerides and low levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol. The metabolic syndrome may play an important role in the pathogenesis of unsuccessful pregnancy, by including a pro-inflammatory and prothrombotic state. Some authors have suggested that in case of metabolic syndrome the LMW heparin therapy given from the time of conception has a favourable effect.

[Histologic chorioamnionitis is associated with cerebral palsy].

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the interaction between histologic chorioamnionitis and unexplained neonatal cerebral palsy among low-birth-weight infants.

Methods: 105 preterm infants delivered under 1500 g between 2000-2004 were studied. The clinical data, the neonatal neuroimaging, the laboratory results finds and the histopathologic features of fetal parts (placenta, umbilical cord and membranes) were evaluated.