Publications by authors named "Irene Ribera"
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- Some people are trying to figure out if waiting to cut the umbilical cord affects how much useful blood can be collected for banking.
- The study looked at data from hospitals in Spain where babies were born normally and compared how much blood was collected based on waiting 30 seconds, 60 seconds, or more than 120 seconds before clamping the cord.
- They found that while waiting longer means you get less blood overall, the important parts of the blood still remained good, so all the waiting times still work for storing the blood for later use.
Introduction: The use of a pessary proved to prevent preterm birth in asymptomatic women with mid-trimester short cervical length (CL); however, the precise mechanisms by which the pessary confers its benefit remain unclear. The aim of this study was to evaluate multiple cervical characteristics assessed by 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional ultrasound before and after placement of a cervical pessary to ascertain its mechanism of action.
Material And Methods: In this prospective cohort study, we assessed the cervical characteristics in singleton pregnancies with maternal short CL and compared them with matched reference women with normal CL.
Placenta-related complications in women carrying a foetus with congenital heart disease.
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med
October 2016
Introduction: Recent studies pointed to an intrinsically angiogenic imbalance in CHD in the maternal and foetal circulation suggestive of impaired placentation.
Objectives: To assess whether pregnant women with a CHD foetus are at greater risk of placenta-related complications.
Methods: Perinatal results of women with a CDH foetus were compared with those of a non-selected population followed up at our centre.
Introduction: Forty percent of Down syndrome (DS) fetuses have congenital heart defects (CHD). An abnormal angiogenic environment has been described in euploid fetuses with CHD. However, the underlying pathophysiologic pathway that contributes to CHD in DS remains unknown.
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