Improvement in uterine artery doppler indices via hysteroscopic metroplasty.

Objective: the objective of our research was to study uterine artery doppler indices and their evolution over time after metroplasty and subsequent pregnancy in patients whose septate uterus was the only explanation for infertility.

Materials And Methods: a retrospective study. The uterine arteries of 78 patients with septate uteri were evaluated using endovaginal color doppler ultrasound before and after metroplasty.

Full-term-pregnancy effects of antenatal betamethasone administration on short-term variation as assessed by computerized cardiotocography.

Objective: to verify whether there are other than transitory effects of antenatal betamethasone (administered for fetal lung maturity [FLM] enhancement) on fetal heart rate (FHR) variability detected by computerized cardiotocography (cCTG) in cases where formerly steroid-treated fetuses reached term.

Materials And Methods: cCTG of one hundred sixty-four women (study group) exposed to antenatal betamethasone for risk of preterm delivery in third trimester period were compared to controls (pregnancies who presented risk of preterm labour in the same period of cases, although with no steroids administration). cCTG was performed weekly as of standard schedule when pregnancies reach term from 37-40 weeks' gestation for cases and controls.

Conjoined twins: what ultrasound may add to management.

Introduction: Conjoined twins occur in approximately 0.2:10,000 births; the obstetrician and sonographer only rarely examine them. In Western countries, discovery of conjoined twins is often made by the end of the first trimester; however, in the third world, conjoined twins are often discovered only at birth.

Betamethasone effects on umbilical arteries and ductus venosus Doppler velocity waveforms in growth-restricted fetuses.

Unlabelled: We studied intrauterine-growth-restricted (IUGR) fetuses with absent or reversed umbilical artery end-diastolic flow (EDF) velocity in order to evaluate the benefit of antenatal steroid therapy. Perinatal outcomes after betamethasone were evaluated where end diastolic flow returned (group I), compared with data from fetuses with persistent absent-reverse end diastolic(ARED) flow (group II).

Objectives/methods: We recruited sixty-four IUGR fetuses, 28-32 weeks' gestation, whose umbilical artery spectral tracings showed ARED flow and positive a-wave in the ductus venosus at admission.

Unicornuate uteri associated with contralateral renal agenesis and ovarian anomalies.

Our findings regarding two cases of unicornuate uterus validate that conventional transvaginal ultrasound is helpful in diagnosing uterine anomalies. Moreover, anomalies of the urinary system and the contralateral ovary should always be considered.