A deep learning approach to identify the fetal head position using transperineal ultrasound during labor.

Objectives: To develop a deep learning (DL)-model using convolutional neural networks (CNN) to automatically identify the fetal head position at transperineal ultrasound in the second stage of labor.

Material And Methods: Prospective, multicenter study including singleton, term, cephalic pregnancies in the second stage of labor. We assessed the fetal head position using transabdominal ultrasound and subsequently, obtained an image of the fetal head on the axial plane using transperineal ultrasound and labeled it according to the transabdominal ultrasound findings.

Childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder: definition, risk factors, pathophysiology, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.

Psychological birth trauma and childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder represent a substantial burden of disease with 6.6 million mothers and 1.7 million fathers or co-parents affected by childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder worldwide each year.

Prediabetes in pregnancy - follow-up, treatment, and outcomes compared to overt pregestational diabetes.

Objective: There are limited data on follow-up, treatment, and maternal and fetal outcomes in women with prediabetes before or at the beginning of pregnancy. The aim of this study was to comprehensively characterize women with prediabetes compared to women with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Study Design: This was a retrospective cohort data from a single medical center treating women with pregestational prediabetes mellitus (PDM).

Assessment of labor progress by ultrasound vs manual examination: a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Assessment of labor progress via digital examination is considered the standard of care in most delivery rooms. However, this method can be stressful, painful, and imprecise, and multiple examinations increase the risk for chorioamnionitis. Intrapartum ultrasound was found to be an objective, noninvasive tool to monitor labor progression.

The association between an oral glucose tolerance test performed at term pregnancy and obstetric outcomes.

Aims: Assessing the value of oral glucose tolerance test performed at term pregnancy in identifying obstetric complications.

Methods: Retrospective cohort study of women with a normal 50 g glucose challenge test who also had an oral glucose tolerance test at term (defined as at or after 37 weeks of gestation). Comparison between the pathological and normal oral glucose tolerance test groups was performed.