Publications by authors named "Francisca Sonia Molina"
Article Synopsis
- Preterm delivery is a major global issue, contributing significantly to child mortality under 5, with many women hospitalized for suspected preterm labor, but diagnosis often proves inaccurate.
- The study focuses on testing a new device called Fine Birth, which quantifies cervical consistency to improve the diagnosis of threatened preterm labor and aims to determine the impact of operator training and microcamera use on its effectiveness.
- Conducted with 77 pregnant women from five Spanish hospitals, the study employed the Fine Birth device to measure cervical stiffness, ensuring reliable results through multiple measurements from different operators.
Transient or acoustic radiation force elastography (ARFE) is becoming the most extended technology to assess cervical effacement, additionally to the Bishop test and conventional ultrasound. However, a debate on the fetal safety has been opened due to the high intensity focused beam emitted to produce shear waves. This work is aimed at providing preliminary data to assess clinical effects of fetal exposure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To compare the incidence of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) in spontaneous versus IVF-conceived twin pregnancies.
Design: Retrospective multicenter study.
Setting: University-affiliated tertiary medical centers.
To explore the feasibility of transient elastography (TE) to quantify cervical stiffness changes during normal pregnancy and its spatial variability. TE was used to quantify the cervical stiffness in four anatomical regions. 42 women between 17 and 43 years of age and at 6 - 41 weeks of gestation were studied.
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