Socioeconomic Deprivation and Utilization of Anesthetic Care During Pregnancy and Delivery: A Secondary Analysis of a French Prospective, Multicenter, Cohort Study.

Background: Socioeconomic deprivation is associated with reduced use of antenatal resources and poor maternal outcomes with pregnancy. Research examining the association between socioeconomic deprivation and use of obstetric anesthesia care in a country providing universal health coverage is scarce. We hypothesized that in a country providing universal health coverage, France, socioeconomic deprivation is not associated with reduced use of anesthetic care during pregnancy and delivery.

[Preterm labour after adenosine treatment for paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia during pregnancy, a case report].

Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia is the most frequent arrhythmia among young pregnant women. In case of failure of vagal manoeuvres, their management is preferentially intravenous infusion of adenosine. The in vitro contracturant effect of adenosine on myometrial fibres is known, but very few data are available about the in vivo effect during pregnancy.

Fertility and pregnancy outcomes following conservative treatment for placenta accreta.

Background: The aim of this study was to estimate the fertility and pregnancy outcomes after successful conservative treatment for placenta accreta.

Methods: This retrospective national multicenter study included women with a history of conservative management for placenta accreta in French university hospitals from 1993 through 2007. Success of conservative treatment was defined by uterine preservation.

Human foetal hepatocytes: isolation, characterization, and transplantation.

Hepatocyte transplantation has become an alternative to orthotopic liver transplantation for the treatment of liver metabolic diseases. However, there is an increasing lack of donor organs and isolated mature hepatocytes are difficult to manipulate and cannot be expanded in vitro. It is therefore necessary to find alternative sources of hepatocytes, and different approaches to evaluate the therapeutic potential of stem cells of different origins are being developed.