Health Promoting Behaviors among Reproductive Age Women in Serbia: The Results from a National Health Survey.

Background: Certain lifestyle characteristics, such as dietary patterns, physical activity, and maintenance of recommended body weight, low-risk alcohol consumption and non-smoking are associated with the lower likelihood for the development of chronic-non communicable disease in the general population. These lifestyles are called health promoting behaviors (HPBs). We aimed to examine the prevalence of the HPBs among the women of reproductive age in Serbia and the factors associated with the compliance with four or more of these behaviors.

Cancer during pregnancy: Twenty-two years of experience from a tertiary referral center.

Introduction: Cancer complicating pregnancy is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition for both the mother and her child. The aim of the present study was to assess the outcomes for mothers and children after pregnancy complicated by malignancy and to investigate which parameters are important for their 1-year survival.

Material And Methods: The study included 84 pregnant women diagnosed with malignant tumors during pregnancy from 2001 to 2022.

Intrauterine Fetal Death in Term Pregnancy-A Single Tertiary Clinic Study.

Introduction: Intrauterine fetal death (IUFD) is defined as death of the fetus after the 20th week of gestation. Despite regular monitoring the incidence of IUFD remains high. This study aims to assess the incidence and maternal conditions associated with IUFD over term pregnancies in a twelve-year period.

Development of ALOHa-G Risk Score for Detecting Postpartum Dyslipidemia Among Normoglycemic Women with Previous Gestational Diabetes: Observational Cohort Study.

Introduction: Previous gestational diabetes (pGD) is associated with a high risk of postpartum dyslipidemia (pD). Our study was aimed at investigating the prevalence of pD and estimating the risk for pD based on metabolic pregnancy parameters in normoglycemic women with pGD.

Methods: 147 women with pGD and normoglycemia after delivery were divided into groups: A (n = 63) with pD and B (n = 84) with normal lipids, defined by the National Cholesterol Education Program's Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III) Final Report (NCEP ATP III).

Revisiting type II diabetes mellitus in pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes such as in thyroidology: do you mind?

Objective: There is an increase in the prevalence of pre-gestational diabetes in the past decades, mainly due to the increase in the prevalence of obesity in the general population and consequently type 2 diabetes among women of reproductive age.

Methods: This study purposed to describe the delivery characteristics, pregnancy complications, and outcomes among women in Serbia with the pre-gestational type 2 diabetes in the past decade, as well as their pregnancy complications, deliveries, and neonatal outcomes. The study included data from all the pregnant women with pre-gestational type 2 diabetes in Belgrade, Serbia during the period between 2010 and 2020.

Hereditary thrombophilia and low -molecular -weight heparin in women: useful determinants, including thyroid dysfunction, incorporating the management of treatment and outcomes of the entity.

Objective: Our study purposed to examine the complex relationship between low-molecular-weight heparin therapy, multiple pregnancy determinants, and adverse pregnancy outcomes during the third trimester in women with inherited thrombophilia.

Methods: Patients were selected from a prospective cohort of 358 pregnant patients recruited between 2016 and 2018 at the Clinic for Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade.

Results: Gestational age at delivery (β=-0.

Trends of the Prevalence of Pre-gestational Diabetes in 2030 and 2050 in Belgrade Cohort.

The aim of this study was to analyze the trends in diabetes in pregnancy in Belgrade, Serbia for the period of the past decade and forecast the number of women with pre-gestational diabetes for the years 2030 and 2050. The study included the data on all pregnant women with diabetes from the registry of the deliveries in Belgrade, by the City Institute of Public Health of Belgrade, Serbia for the period between 2010 and 2020 and the published data on the deliveries on the territory of Belgrade. During the examined period the total number of live births in Belgrade was 196,987, and the prevalence of diabetes in pregnancy was 3.

Combined hereditary thrombophilias are responsible for poor placental vascularization development and low molecular weight heparins (LMWH) prevent adverse pregnancy outcomes in these patients.

Background: Even though thrombophilias are associated with negative pregnancy outcomes (PO), there is not a consensus of when thrombophilias should be screened for, or how they affect placental vascularization during pregnancy. Therefore, the main aim of this study was to discover inherited thrombophilias (IHT) in the first trimester in women with otherwise no indications for thrombophilia screening, based on their vascularization parameters. LMWH treatment in improvement of placental vascularization and PO was also assessed.

Cancer during pregnancy - clinical characteristics, treatment outcomes and prognosis for mothers and infants.

Objective: To assess which obstetrical characteristics and treatment improved outcomes and prognosis of pregnant women with malignancy.

Methods: A prospective study, undertaken between 2005 and 2014, involving 35 pregnant women who were diagnosed with malignant tumors during pregnancy. Patients were followed-up for 1 year after delivery.

Pregnancy associated with melanoma and fetal anomalies: a case report and review of literature.

The estimated incidence of melanoma complicating pregnancy has ranged from 0.1 to 2.8 per 1,000 pregnancies.

Relationship between mid-trimester ultrasound fetal liver length measurements and gestational diabetes mellitus.

Background: The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between mid-trimester ultrasound fetal liver length (FLL) and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in a high-risk population.

Methods: A prospective study was performed in 331 women with singleton pregnancies who were at high risk of GDM and were undergoing a mid-trimester ultrasound examination. The ultrasound scan at 23 weeks gestation was followed by a 100-g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) at 24 weeks gestation.

Prediction of fetal macrosomia with ultrasound parameters and maternal glycemic controls in gestational diabetes mellitus.

Purpose Of Investigation: Evaluation of ultrasound measurements of fetal adipose subcutaneous tissue (ASCT), abdominal circumference (AC), liver length (LL), and amniotic fluid index (AFI) in prediction of fetal macrosomia (FM) and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).

Materials And Methods: In a prospective clinical trial, 280 pregnant women underwent 100 g oral glucose tolerance test (oGTT) at 28th week of gestation (wg) and measurements ofAC, LL, AFI, and ASCT at 32nd, 34th, 36th, and 38th wg.

Results: For GDM, the best sensitivity was achieved by ACST at 32nd and 34th wg, the best specificity by LL at 32nd wg (90.

Comparison of electrolytic status (Na+, K+, Ca2+, Mg2+) in preterm and term deliveries.

Purpose Of Investigation: The objective of this study was to evaluate the electrolytic status of Na+, K+, Ca+, and Mg2+ in serum and red blood cells in idiopathic preterm and term deliveries.

Methods: The study included 105 pregnant women diagnosed with idiopathic premature delivery (study group) and 36 pregnant women with physiologically term delivery (controls). Samples of mother's blood were collected and analyzed for the level of electrolytes in the serum/plasma and red blood cells.

The prognostic value of amplitude-integrated electroencephalography in neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.

Background/aim: Diagnosis of perinatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) and early prediction neurological outcome is important and difficult. The aim of this study was to determine the prognostic value of amplitude-integrated electroencephalography (aEEG) for abnormal neurodevelopment outcome in a neonate with HIE.

Methods: A total of 90 neonates > 32 gestational age (GA) with HIE were enrolled prospectively.

The effects of adjuvant insulin therapy among pregnant women with IGT who failed to achieve the desired glycemia levels by diet and moderate physical activity.

Objective: Evaluation of adjuvant insulin therapy effects on glycemic control, perinatal outcome and postpuerperal glucose tolerance in impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) pregnant women who failed to achieve desired glycemic control by dietary regime.

Methods: A total of 280 participants were classified in two groups: Group A patients continued with dietary regime and Group B patients were treated with adjuvant insulin therapy. Glycemic control was assessed by laboratory and ultrasonograph means.

The role of oxidative stress in perinatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury.

Introduction: The pathogenesis of perinatal hypoxic-ischemic brain damage is highly complex.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the role of oxidative stress in hypoxic-ischemic brain injury and subsequent abnormal neurological outcome in infants with perinatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). We estimated perinatal oxidative brain damage measuring activity of glutathione peroxidase (GPX) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) as an indirect biomarker of free radical production during cerebral hypoxia-ischemia in correlation with the level of intracellular enzyme neuron specific enolase (NSE) in CSF as a biomarker of extend of brain injury.

[The effect of antiaggregational therapy on the long-term patency of the femoropopliteal/crural bypass].

Introduction: Antiaggregational therapy can reduce thrombosis development following the arterial reconstruction surgery. In most cases acetylsalicylic acid and ticlopidine are used as antiaggregational agents.

Objective: The aim of this research was to examine the influence of different antiaggregational agents on a long-term femoropopliteal/crural bypass patency.

[Predictive value of color Doppler neuro-sonography for the development of neurological sequels in newborn infants with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy].

Background/aim: The use of color Doppler neurosonography (cD-US) allows simultaneous examination of parenchymal and vascular cerebral structures. Evaluation of cerebral blood flow velocities (CBFV) and vascular resistance are important in assessment of cerebral circulation in neonates with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). The aim of this study was to evaluate the predictive value of cD-US for abnormal neurodevelopmental outcome in the neonates with HIE.

Sensitivity and specificity of ultrasonography as a screening tool for gestational diabetes mellitus.

Objective: To evaluate diagnostic accuracy and efficiency of ultrasound markers of gestational diabetes (GDM) and propose an ultrasound based scoring system suitable for screening (UGDS).

Methods: 110 women with singleton pregnancies and established maternal and/or pregnancy related risk factors for GDM were scanned at/or after 24 weeks gestation followed by administration of a 3 hour 100-gram oral glucose tolerance test (oGTT). A number of ultrasound markers were determined/measured, including fetal adipose subcutaneous tissue, asymmetrical macrosomy, cardiac circumference, cardiac width, and interventricular septum thickness, immature appearance of placenta, intensified breathing movements, polyhydramnios and placental thickness.

Postmenopausal palpable ovary and ovarian cancer.

Introduction: Ultrasound (US) examination is a much more reliable method for evaluation of potential ovarian cancer risk than gynecologic palpation. The aim of our study was to analyze the US characteristics of patients with palpable ovaries in light of potential for malignancy.

Patients And Methods: We analyzed 70 women ten years after menopause without increased CA 125 values.