Mode of delivery for breech presentation in grandmultiparous women.

Objectives: To compare maternal and neonatal outcomes of planned vaginal delivery vs. elective cesarean delivery for breech presentation at term.

Methods: Retrospective study of term breech deliveries from January 1997 through December 2000.

Randomized study of non-closure of peritoneum in lower segment cesarean section.

Background: The advantages of non-closure of the visceral and parietal peritoneum at lower segment cesarean section seems to be evident but in the reports published so far, the number of patients studied has been relatively small and the follow-up periods short. It is obviously of value to reconfirm such important observation in several institutions and therefore, in 1991, we decided to study non-closure of the peritoneum in lower segment cesarean section in a large series of patients with long-term follow-up of at least one year.

Methods: A prospective randomized study of 361 patients undergoing lower segment cesarean section in a University Affiliated Hospital, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates.

Gestational and neonatal toxoplasmosis: regional seroprevalence in the United Arab Emirates.

Paired maternal/cord blood samples were tested for anti-Toxoplasma IgG or IgM antibodies using Biomerieux Micro-EIA2 IgG and IgM test kits. Of the 1503 women tested at the time of delivery, 344 (22.9%) were IgG seropositive.

Relapse of endometrial carcinoma related to steroid receptor concentration, staging, histologic grading and myometrial invasion.

Estradiol and progesterone receptor concentrations were positively correlated to the stage of the disease and to the grade of the tumors, but not to myometrial invasion. Myometrial invasion of more than the inner third and degree of differentiation are both important prognostic factors. By combining low estradiol receptor concentration and the degree of myometrial invasion in poorly differentiated adenocarcinomas, stage I-II, it was possible to identify a group of patients containing a high percentage of relapses.