Purpose: To compare changes in the pubic symphysis between women with vaginal delivery and women with caesarean sections within the first postpartum week.
Materials And Methods: After institutional review board approval 30 healthy women were prospectively examined with MRI (transverse STIR-sequence) three days after delivery. 17 women with vaginal delivery (mean age 33.
Objective: The objective of our study was to compare MRI findings in the sacroiliac joints of postpartum women (as a model of mechanical changes) and women with known axial spondyloarthritis (as an inflammatory model).
Subjects And Methods: For this prospective multicenter age-matched, case-control study, sacroiliac joint MRI examinations of 30 healthy women (mean age, 34.0 years) in the early postpartum period (mechanical group) and 30 age-matched women (mean age, 33.
Objective: The objective of this study was to determine for the first time the reliability and the diagnostic power of high-resolution microarray testing in routine prenatal diagnostics.
Methods: We applied high-resolution chromosomal microarray testing in 464 cytogenetically normal prenatal samples with any indication for invasive testing.
Results: High-resolution testing revealed a diagnostic yield of 6.