Pediatric respiratory hospitalizations in small for gestational age neonates born at term.

Objective: This study investigates the risk for long-term respiratory hospitalizations of offspring born small for gestational age (SGA) at term.

Study Design: A retrospective population-based cohort analysis was performed to examine the risk of long-term respiratory hospitalizations between SGA compared to appropriate for gestational age (AGA) newborns. The analysis included all term singleton deliveries occurring between 1991 and 2014 at a single tertiary medical center.

Maternal history of recurrent pregnancy loss and long-term risk of thromboembolic events.

Background: Recurrent pregnancy loss is a multifactorial disorder with potential underlying maternal hypercoagulability.

Objective: We aimed to investigate whether a history of recurrent pregnancy loss poses an independent risk for future maternal long-term thromboembolic morbidity.

Study Design: A population-based study compared the incidence of long-term thromboembolic morbidity in a cohort of women with and without a history of recurrent pregnancy loss.

Antepartum vaginal colonization and the risk for obstetrical tears.

Objective: Vaginal colonization is very common during pregnancy. An association between colonization and obstetrical tears has not yet been investigated. We investigated whether vaginal colonization during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk for obstetrical tears.

Pelvic floor disorders following different delivery modes-a population-based cohort analysis.

Introduction And Hypothesis: Identifying protective factors against pelvic floor disorders (PFDs) is important. We investigated whether cesarean delivery (CD) at the indication of abnormal second stage of labor (ASSL) has the same protective effect against future PFDs.

Methods: This population-based cohort study included deliveries occurring from 1991-2017 in a tertiary medical center.

Meconium-stained amniotic fluid exposure is associated with a lower incidence of offspring long-term infectious morbidity.

Objective: Meconium-stained amniotic fluid (MSAF) is a well-established risk factor for immediate adverse neonatal outcomes and was recently suggested to be associated with microbial invasion of the amniotic cavity. We aimed to determine whether MSAF exposure during labor carries a longer lasting impact on pediatric infectious morbidity.

Study Design: A population-based cohort analysis was performed including all singleton deliveries occurring between 1991 and 2014 at a single tertiary medical center.

Prevalence and risk factors for urinary tract infection following stress urinary incontinence surgery with two midurethral sling procedures.

Objective: To compare prevalence and risk factors for urinary tract infection (UTI) following midurethral sling surgery with either the GYNECARE ABBREVO Continence System (Ethicon, Somerville, NJ, USA) or a standard transobturator.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted among women who underwent midurethral sling surgery to treat stress urinary incontinence at a single tertiary hospital in Israel between January 1, 2014, and August 11, 2015. Data were retrieved from medical records.

Maternal recurrent pregnancy loss is associated with an increased risk for long-term neurological morbidity in offspring.

Aim: To determine whether maternal history of recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) impacts on the long-term neurological health of the offspring.

Method: A population-based cohort analysis was performed, including all singletons born between 1991 and 2014 at a single regional tertiary centre. Neurological morbidity up to age 18 years (including cognitive, motor, and psychiatric disorders) in children born to mothers with and without a history of RPL was compared.

Prevalence and risk factors for urinary tract infection up to one year following midurethral sling incontinence surgery.

Objective: To investigate the prevalence and risk factors of urinary tract infection (UTI) one year following sub-midurethral sling (SMUS) incontinence surgery in a university affiliated medical center in southern Israel.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted to identify and characterize patients who suffered UTI within a year following SMUS surgery. The study population comprised of all patients who underwent a SMUS surgery between the years 2014 and 2015.

Evidence that children born at early term (37-38 6/7 weeks) are at increased risk for diabetes and obesity-related disorders.

Background: Prematurity is known to be associated with high rates of endocrine and metabolic complications in the offspring. Offspring born early term (37-38 6/7 weeks' gestation) were also shown to exhibit long-term morbidity resembling that of late preterm, in several health categories.

Objective: We aimed to determine whether early term delivery impacts on the long-term endocrine and metabolic health of the offspring.

Inflammatory and vascular placental lesions are associated with neonatal amplitude integrated EEG recording in early premature neonates.

Introduction: Placental histologic examination can assist in revealing the mechanism leading to preterm birth. Accumulating evidence suggests an association between intrauterine pathological processes, morbidity and mortality of premature infants, and their long term outcome. Neonatal brain activity is increasingly monitored in neonatal intensive care units by amplitude integrated EEG (aEEG) and indices of background activity and sleep cycling patterns were correlated with long term outcome.

Native tissue repair for central compartment prolapse: a narrative review.

Central descent due to a level 1 defect is a main component in pelvic organ prolapse (POP) reconstructive surgery, whether for symptomatic apical prolapse or for the prolapse repair of other compartments. A recent growth in the rate of native tissue repair procedures for POP, following the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warnings regarding the safety and efficacy of synthetic meshes, requires a re-evaluation of these procedures. The safety, efficacy, and determination of the optimal surgical approach should be the center of attention.