An audit of pregnancy outcomes in solid organ transplant recipients at a metropolitan hospital.

Background: Pregnancies in patients with solid organ transplants have higher rates of complications and caesarean sections (CS).

Aim: To perform an audit of the pregnancy outcomes in transplant recipients, to determine the rate of CS in our cohort, the appropriate skin incision for CS in these patients and to formulate recommendations for preoperative planning.

Materials And Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study.

Intravenous iron vs blood for acute post-partum anaemia (IIBAPPA): a prospective randomised trial.

Background: Acute post-partum anaemia can be associated with significant morbidity including a predisposition for postnatal depression. Lack of clear practice guidelines means a number of women are treated with multiple blood transfusions. Intravenous iron has the potential to limit the need for multiple blood transfusions but its role in the post-partum setting is unclear.

Who is and isn't having babies with Down syndrome in western Sydney: a ten year hospital cohort study.

Background: Screening for Down syndrome (DS) is a key component of antenatal care, recommended to be universally offered to women irrespective of age or background. Despite this, the diagnosis of DS is often not made until the neonatal period.

Aims: To retrospectively describe and compare the differences in populations with an antenatal diagnosis (AD) and neonatal diagnosis (ND) of DS and to explore why an antenatal diagnosis was not made.

Community management of lactational mastitis and/or breast abscess: a retrospective audit.

Lactational mastitis has an incidence of around 10 per cent in postpartum women, with breast abscess complicating some of these.The key principles of treatment include: supportive counselling, warm or cold compresses, effective milk removal, oral antibiotic therapy and symptomatic treatment. Patients can be managed in the community setting; however many present to hospital.

Sublingual misoprostol for management of empty sac or missed miscarriage: The first two years' experience at a metropolitan Australian hospital.

Background: Misoprostol management of miscarriage is only now becoming widely used in Australia.

Aims: To review the efficacy, safety and the popularity of outpatient sublingual misoprostol in empty sac/missed miscarriage management over its first two years of availability in a metropolitan Australian hospital.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective cohort review was undertaken of women choosing sublingual misoprostol 600 μg (three tablets) × three doses for miscarriage management.