Effects of eHealth literacy on maternal and neonatal outcomes.

eHealth literacy plays a crucial role during pregnancy, as maternal health behavior can influence health outcomes for both mother and child. This study assessed the impact of eHealth literacy on maternal-fetal health outcomes through a cross-sectional analysis of 1,265 pregnant women admitted to a tertiary maternity hospital in Turkey between April and July 2022. Data on sociodemographic information, obstetric variables, birth outcomes, Internet usage, and eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS) were collected.

Fetal heart diseases and neonatal mortality: Risk factors and management.

Purpose: Fetal heart diseases significantly contribute to neonatal mortality. Improved prenatal diagnostics enable defect detection before delivery, emphasizing the need for a personalized approach to address anomalies and predict outcomes. Categorizing diseases into risk classes aids obstetricians in counseling and delivery decisions.

Investigating the blood rheology in the first trimester pregnancies with high risk for preeclampsia.

Background: Pregnancy is a dynamic process associated with changes in vascular and rheological resistance. Maternal maladaptation to these changes is the leading cause of pregnancy complications such as preeclampsia.

Objective: This study aimed to assess the hemorheological alterations in pregnancies with a high risk for preeclampsia in the first trimester.

Association between perceived social support, marital satisfaction, differentiation of self and perinatal depression.

Objective: The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between peripartum depression and social support, marital satisfaction, and self-differentiation.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on postpartum women from December 28, 2021, and March 31, 2022. Postpartum women were evaluated using a questionnaire consisting of sections assessing sociodemographic characteristics, obstetric history, and psychometric instruments: Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale (EPDS), Marital Disaffection Scale (MDS), Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), and Differentiation of Self Inventory (DSI).

Does asymptomatic/uncomplicated SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy increase the risk of spontaneous preterm birth?

Objectives: The aim of this study was to analyze the perinatal outcomes of asymptomatic/uncomplicated SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy and the relationship between gestational age at the time of infection and spontaneous preterm birth (PTB).

Material And Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study. The study population included pregnant women who were 19-45 years old and who had been admitted to a Research and Training Hospital for singleton birth delivery.

The effect of gestational diabetes mellitus on occurrence of the pelvic girdle pain and symptom severity in pregnant women.

The primary objective of this study was to examine the effect of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) on pelvic girdle pain (PGP) occurrence and symptom severity. Pregnant women who were with/without GDM, 20-40 years of age, and also in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy were included in the study. PGP provocation tests were administered to 187 pregnant women to determine the presence and severity of PGP.

Increased maternal leptin levels may be an indicator of subclinical hypothyroidism in a newborn.

Background: Several factors may influence newborn thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) concentrations and cause subclinical hypothyroidism in a newborn. A sufficient level of leptin signalling is needed for the normal production of TSH and thyroid hormones by the thyroid gland. Our study aimed to investigate the correlation between maternal serum leptin concentration during the third trimester of pregnancy and newborn screening-TSH levels.

Heterotaxy syndrome: Prenatal diagnosis, concomitant malformations and outcomes.

Objective: The aim of this study is to define cardiac and extracardiac malformations in fetuses with heterotaxy syndrome and to determine perinatal and childhood prognosis.

Methods: In this retrospective study, fetuses diagnosed with heterotaxy syndrome on antenatal ultrasonography in a tertiary center between January 2014 and January 2021 were analyzed. Fetuses with heterotaxy syndrome were grouped as right atrial isomerism (RAI) and left atrial isomerism (LAI).

Expectations of pregnant women for antenatal care services and factors affecting anxiety severity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objectives: We aimed to evaluate the difficulties pregnant women encountered while receiving health care, their demands for antenatal care, and their mental state during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Material And Methods: A total of 447 pregnant women were included in this cross-sectional study. The data were collected through a face-to-face questionnaire, which assessed participants' demographic, individual, and obstetric characteristics, their opinions regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, expectations from their antenatal care services, and their Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) scores.

Clinical significance of prenatal double bubble sign on perinatal outcome and literature review.

Objective: To determine the diagnostic accuracy of the double bubble sign in predicting duedonal obstruction, the prevalence of anomalies associated with congenital duedonal obstruction, and to evaluate the outcome of these pregnancies and review the literature.

Methods: We analyzed that the cases with double bubble sign were detected in prenatal ultrasonography between January 2014 and December 2019. Ultrasound reports, karyotyping results, surgical confirmed diagnoses and long-term results were extracted from the hospital database.

Combined use of oestradiol and progesterone to support luteal phase in antagonist intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycles of normoresponder women: a case-control study.

We evaluated the effect of combined use of oral oestrogen (E2) and vaginal progesterone (P) to support luteal phase in antagonist intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) cycles. We analysed data from 176 patients who underwent ICSI cycles with antagonist protocol. P 90 mg vaginal gel once a day and micronised E2 of 4 mg/day, were started from the day of oocyte pick up and continued to the 12th day of embryo transfer.

Exposure to Perchlorate in Lactating Women and Its Associations With Newborn Thyroid Stimulating Hormone.

Perchlorate, thiocyanate, and nitrate can block iodide transport at the sodium iodide symporter (NIS) and this can subsequently lead to decreased thyroid hormone production and hypothyroidism. NIS inhibitor exposure has been shown to reduce iodide uptake and thyroid hormone levels; therefore we hypothesized that maternal NIS inhibitor exposure will influence both maternal and newborn thyroid function. Spot urine samples were collected from 185 lactating mothers and evaluated for perchlorate, thiocyanate, and nitrate concentrations.

Cytological assessment of endometrial washings obtained with Karman cannula using a liquid-based preparation method for the detection of endometrial pathologies.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic efficacy and utility of liquid-based cytology in ThinPrep (Cytyc Corporation, Boxborough, MA) for endometrial lesions in patients presenting with abnormal uterine bleeding.

Materials And Methods: Two hundred and thirteen women scheduled for dilatation and curettage because of abnormal uterine bleeding were enrolled in the study. After providing informed consent, all the women proceeded sequentially to endometrial cytology and then dilatation and curettage.

Clinical analyses of successful and previously failed intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycle parameters in patients with poor ovarian reserve.

Objective: To determine some major characteristic differences between two consecutive successful and unsuccessful intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) cycles in poor responders.

Materials And Methods: Sixty women with poor ovarian response as determined using the Bologna criteria underwent ICSI cycles following an unsuccessful trial. Some parameters of both cycles including age, body mass index (BMI), serum follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and estradiol levels, antral follicle count, gonadotropin dosage, duration of stimulation, antagonist starting day, duration of antagonist administration, endometrial thickness at trigger day, number of total and fertilized oocytes, embryo transfer day, number of embryo cells, and fertilization rate were compared in the same patients to identify predictors of cycles with clinical pregnancy.

Prediction of gestational diabetes mellitus at first trimester in low-risk pregnancies.

Objective: We aimed to assess the relationship among the sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), homeostasis model assessment (HOMA), glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c), and cholesterol panel values to predict subsequent gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in low-risk pregnancies.

Materials And Methods: Thirty-eight pregnant women with GDM and 295 low-risk pregnant women without GDM were included in this study. Maternal blood samples were obtained during the first trimester examination to determine the SHBG, HbA1c, fasting blood glucose, insulin, thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), free thyroxine, total cholesterol, triglycerides (TG), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels.

Effect of Young Maternal Age on Obstetric and Perinatal Outcomes: Results from the Tertiary Center in Turkey.

Background: Young maternal age is variously defined in studies of its effect on obstetrics and perinatal outcomes. Also, pregnancy has been reported as the leading cause of death in adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries.

Aims: The aim of the study was to evaluate whether young maternal age was associated with an increased risk of obstetrics and perinatal adverse outcomes.

Obstetric outcomes of intramural leiomyomas in pregnancy.

Aim: The authors aimed to study larger intramural leiomyoma with a size of ≥ three cm on pregnancy outcome of singleton pregnancies compared with control group.

Materials And Methods: The hospital records of all pregnancies followed between years of 2009 and 2013 were searched for the diagnosis of intramural leiomyoma in the second trimester ultrasonographic screening, past medical history, demographics, pregnancy follow up, and pregnancy outcomes of pregnant women. In the data analyses, 112 singleton pregnant women with intramural leiomyoma were included in the study group and 168 singleton pregnant women without leiomyoma were included in the control group.

Maternal and fetal risk factors affecting perinatal mortality in early and late fetal growth restriction.

Objective: To determine the factors which affect the perinatal deaths in early and late fetal growth restriction (FGR) fetuses using threshold of estimated fetal weight (EFW) < 5(th) percentile.

Materials And Methods: This retrospective study included singleton 271 FGR fetuses, defined as an EFW < 5(th) percentile. All fetuses considered as growth restrictions were confirmed by birth weight.

Prenatal diagnosis and outcomes of fetal teratomas.

Purpose: Our aim was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of ultrasonography (US) in the prenatal identification of teratomas and the perinatal outcome of the fetuses with those teratomas.

Methods: In this retrospective case series study, we searched the archives using the keywords "fetal mass" or "fetal tumor" or "fetal teratoma" and "sacrococcygeal teratoma," diagnosed between 2009 and 2014, within the US database of our center.

Results: One hundred seven fetuses were prenatally diagnosed as having a cystic or solid mass, tumor, or teratoma.

Spot protein/creatinine ratio in preeclampsia as an alternative for 24-hour urine protein.

Background: Proteinuria is a major component of preeclampsia. Urine protein measurement after 24-hour urine collection is the traditional standard method for the detection of proteinuria. It is time-consuming.

Prenatal diagnosis and outcome of lymphangiomas and its relationship with fetal chromosomal abnormalities.

Objectives: Our aim was to evaluate ultrasound findings and perinatal outcome after prenatal diagnosis of lymphangioma.

Methods: This was a retrospective case series study. We searched the archives of our ultrasound database at our center for cases with the prenatal diagnosis of the lymphangioma in the period between January 2008 and November 2014.

Effect of thyroid dysfunction and autoimmunity on pregnancy outcomes in low risk population.

Purpose: The objective of this study was to assess the effect of thyroid dysfunction and autoimmunity in early pregnancy on adverse pregnancy and neonatal outcome.

Methods: 497 pregnant women between 10 and 12 gestational age were invited who were attending for their first antenatal visit and asked to perform blood tests for thyroid function and antithyroid peroxidase antibodies. A total of 395 women were recruited in the present study.