Patient blood management to minimize transfusions during the postpartum period.

Patient blood management is an evidence-based concept that seeks to minimize blood loss by maintaining adequate hemoglobin levels and optimizing hemostasis during surgery. Since the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, patient blood management has gained significance due to fewer blood donations and reduced amounts of blood stored for transfusion. Recently, the prevalence of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), as well as the frequency of PPH-associated transfusions, has steadily increased.

Prediction of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Using Crown-Rump Length at 11 to 13 + 6 Weeks of Gestation.

Objectives: To assess the risk of a fetus with a smaller or larger than expected crown-rump length (CRL) for adverse pregnancy outcomes.

Methods: The data of 960 healthy singleton pregnancies conceived via in vitro fertilization were retrospectively collected. Fetal CRL was measured between 11 and 13 + 6 weeks of gestation, and small and large fetal CRLs were defined as fetuses below the 10th and above the 90th centiles, respectively.

Clinical characteristics and prognostic inflection points among long-term survivors of advanced epithelial ovarian cancer.

Objective: To assess clinical characteristics of long-term survivors of advanced epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) to define a prognostic inflection point for long-term survival.

Methods: A retrospective analysis was undertaken of patients with FIGO stage III or IV EOC treated at one center in South Korea from 2000 to 2012. Patients who survived 5 years or more were identified, and the periods of disease-free survival and overall survival were evaluated for prognostic inflection points to indicate long-term survival.