The French Ambulatory Cesarean Section: Safety and Recovery Characteristics.

Objectives: The French AmbUlatory Extraperitoneal Cesarean Section (FAUCS) is aimed at improving patients' birth experience and recovery. However, data are scarce regarding its maternal and neonatal safety. This study seeks to compare maternal and neonatal outcomes between FAUCS and conventional cesarean deliveries at term.

Intra-amniotic umbilical vein varix: A case report and review of the literature.

An umbilical vein varix is a rare fetal condition and is defined as a focal dilatation of the umbilical vein.

Depression, Stress and the Mediating Role of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Among Israeli Women of Childbearing Age in the Shadow of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Dealing with the outbreak of the new coronavirus has generated unprecedented challenges around the world, including in Israel. Women of childbearing age may be forced to live under particularly difficult circumstances during the pandemic. The current study among Israeli women of childbearing age has three main objectives related to the specific period of the COVID-19 pandemic: to study the prevalence and predictors of intimate partner violence (IPV); to investigate the prevalence and predictors of depression; to examine whether IPV mediates the association between general stress, fear of COVID-19 and depression as an outcome.

Preeclampsia: Novel Mechanisms and Potential Therapeutic Approaches.

Preeclampsia is a serious complication of pregnancy where it affects 5-8% of all pregnancies. It increases the morbidity and mortality of both the fetus and pregnant woman, especially in developing countries. It deleteriously affects several vital organs, including the kidneys, liver, brain, and lung.

The association between poor ovarian response and thrombophilia in assisted reproduction.

Objective: To investigate the association between thrombophilic risk factors and poor ovarian response in an assisted reproductive technologies (ART) setting.

Study Design: This is a preliminary prospective cohort study in a university affiliated reproductive medicine unit. Eighty-nine infertile women undergoing IVF-ET treatment were recruited.

Prospective evaluation of early follicular ovarian stromal blood flow in infertile women undergoing IVF-ET treatment.

Background: To evaluate the role of early follicular stromal flow studies in predicting ovarian response during IVF-ET treatment and to assess their correlation with ovarian reserve parameters and clinical pregnancy achievement.

Materials & Methods: One hundred and sixty-eight consecutive and unselected infertile women undergoing their first IVF-ET treatment were included in the study. Basal ovarian reserve and stromal Doppler flow studies were performed in a natural cycle before starting treatment.

Prospective evaluation of basal stromal Doppler studies in women with good ovarian reserve and infertility undergoing in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer treatment: patients with polycystic ovary syndrome versus ovulatory patients.

Objective: To gain insight into the ovarian stromal blood flow in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) as compared with women with normal ovulation, good ovarian reserve, and infertility and to evaluate the role of stromal flow in these patients to predict clinical pregnancy in an assisted reproductive technologies setting.

Design: A prospective observational cohort study.

Setting: A university-affiliated reproductive medicine unit.

Evaluation of normal fetal atrio-ventricular septum dimensions during pregnancy.

Objectives: Ebstein anomaly and atrio-ventricular septal defect involve a profound change in the appearance of the atrio-ventricular septum (AVS). AVS is the area between the insertion of the mitral valve and the tricuspid valve leaflets to the ventricular septum. In normal fetuses, the tricuspid valve has an apical displacement relative to the mitral valve.

[The genetic sonogram].

Mid-trimester soft sonographic markers have been linked with aneuploidies. This article describes the individual sonographic markers used in the genetic sonograms, and reviews the current relevant Literature. The significant soft markers are: nuchal thickness, echogenic bowel, shortened limbs and absence of nasal bone.

A simple multivariate score could predict ovarian reserve, as well as pregnancy rate, in infertile women.

Objective: To find a simple multivariate score that has the potential to predict ovarian reserve, as well as pregnancy rate, in infertile women.

Design: A prospective study.

Setting: A university-affiliated reproductive medicine unit.