Prevalence and descriptive analysis of congenital heart disease in parturients: obstetric, neonatal, and anesthetic outcomes.

Study Objective: The study objectives are to (1) assess prevalence of congenital heart disease (CHD), (2) describe outcomes of pregnancies in women with CHD, (3) compare outcomes in women with and without CHD, and (4) characterize neonatal outcomes in pregnancies complicated by CHD.

Design: This was a retrospective cohort study of women who delivered at the University of Colorado Hospital. Diagnosis of CHD was identified based on history of cardiac disease, pulmonary disease, or subacute bacterial endocarditis prophylaxis during labor and confirmed with echocardiogram when available.

Fetal weight estimation in diabetic pregnancies using the gestation-adjusted projection method: comparison of two timing strategies for third-trimester sonography.

Objectives: The gestation-adjusted projection method extrapolates birth weight using third-trimester sonography. This technique is shown to be more accurate for sonographic examinations from 34 weeks to 36 weeks 6 days than 37 weeks to 38 weeks 6 days. Our objective was to determine whether even earlier sonographic examinations (31 weeks-33 weeks 6 days) further improves birth weight prediction in patients with diabetes.

Association of extremes of prepregnancy BMI with the clinical presentations of preterm birth.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine associations between the prepregnancy maternal body mass index (BMI) across the 3 clinical presentations of preterm birth (PTB).

Study Design: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of the records of 11,726 women. The World Health Organization International Classification was used to categorize BMI.

Intrapartum management of premature rupture of membranes: effect on cesarean delivery rate.

Objective: To estimate whether it is possible to define clinically a subgroup of women who have so high a cesarean delivery rate as to avoid spontaneous onset of labor or induced labor.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study (October 2005 to January 2010) on a data set of women who had premature rupture of membranes (PROM) at greater than 24 weeks of gestation, a singleton pregnancy, and a viable fetus without congenital anomalies. Patients were treated in a common way regarding indications for delivery.