Epidural analgesia information sessions provided by anesthetic nurses: impact on satisfaction and anxiety of parturient women a prospective sequential study.

Background: Information on epidural analgesia delivered to parturient women is frequently incomplete, making it difficult for expectant mothers to make an appropriate choice for their delivery. We assessed the impact of a multimodal information session on epidural analgesia delegated to anesthetic nurses on new-mothers' satisfaction.

Methods: We performed a prospective sequential study including parturient women who gave birth with epidural analgesia.

Sickle cell disease and COVID-19 in pregnant women.

Introduction: The effect of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on pregnancy outcome in women with sickle cell disease (SCD) is unknown.

Objectives: To analyze the severity of the SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnant women with SCD and its impact on pregnancy.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study included SCD pregnant women tested positive for COVID-19 between March 2020 - February 2021.

[Pregnancy planning and follow-up of a pregnant woman with sickle cell disease].

Pregnancy is a high-risk situation in sickle cell patients, both for the mother and the foetus. It considerably increases the risk of an acute complication (vaso-occlusive crisis, acute chest syndrome, infection, thrombosis) of sickle cell disease. In addition, this condition increases the risk of placental vascular complications (in utero growth retardation, pre-eclampsia, retroplacental haematoma and in utero foetal death).

Chronic Villitis of unknown etiology (VUE): Obstetrical features, outcome and treatment.

Villitis of unknown etiology (VUE) is characterized by lympho-histiocytic infiltrates, which are predominant within the villous stroma. VUE can be of low grade i.e.

Clinical and prognostic significance of antinuclear antibodies in primary antiphospholipid syndrome: A multicenter retrospective study.

Introduction: The antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) (1) is defined by the development of vascular thrombosis, or pregnancy morbidity in the presence of persistent antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL). Antinuclear antibodies (ANA) can be detected in primary APS patients without any clinical systemic autoimmune disease. The presence of ANA antibodies could confer a specific phenotype in primary APS.

Language barrier as a risk factor for obstetric anal sphincter injury - A case-control study.

Introduction: The incidence of grade 3-4 perineal tears, also known as obstetric anal sphincter injury (OASI), is reported to be between 0.5 and 2.5%.

Unexplained recurrent miscarriages: predictive value of immune biomarkers and immunomodulatory therapies for live birth.

Introduction: Recurrent miscarriages are defined as three or more early miscarriages before 12 weeks of gestation. The aim of this study was to describe a cohort of women with unexplained recurrent miscarriages, evaluate several potential biomarkers of immune origin, and describe the outcome of pregnancies under immunomodulatory therapies.

Methods: Women having a history of at least 3 early miscarriages without any etiology were recruited from 3 university hospitals.

Endometriosis with infertility: A comprehensive review on the role of immune deregulation and immunomodulation therapy.

Background: Endometriosis is a multifactorial pathology dependent on intrinsic and extrinsic factors, but the immune deregulation seems to play a pivotal role. In endometriosis-associated infertility, this could raise the benefit of immunomodulatory strategies to improve the results of ART. In this review, we will describe (1) sera and peritoneal fluid cytokines and immune markers; (2) autoantibodies; and (3) immunomodulatory treatments in endometriosis with infertility.

Obstetrical outcome and treatments in seronegative primary APS: data from European retrospective study.

Objective: To compare characteristics, pregnancies and treatments during pregnancies of seronegative and seropositive antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), to analyse factors associated with obstetrical outcome.

Patients And Methods: Inclusion criteria were: (1) thrombotic and/or obstetrical APS (Sydney criteria); (2) absence of conventional antiphospholipid antibodies (APL); (3) at least one persistent non-conventional APL among IgA anticardiolipin antibodies, IgA anti-B2GPI, anti-vimentin G/M, anti-annexin V G/M, anti-phosphatidylethanolamine G/M and anti-phosphatidylserine/prothrombin G/M antibodies. The exclusion criteria were: (1) systemic lupus erythematosus ( SLE) or SLE-like disease; and (2) other connective tissue disease.

Intralipid therapy for unexplained recurrent miscarriage and implantation failure: Case-series and literature review.

Introduction: In retrospective cohort study of women with unexplained recurrent implantation failure (RIF) and miscarriage (RM), we analyzed the efficacy and safety of intralipid therapy to obtain a live birth.

Patients And Methods: Women with unexplained RM and/or RIF were included from 2015 to 2018 from three French university hospitals.

Results: Among 187 women treated for unexplained recurrent miscarriages and implantation failures, 26 women with median age of 36 years (29-43) received intralipid therapy.

A snapshot of the Covid-19 pandemic among pregnant women in France.

Objective: To describe the course over time of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in French women from the beginning of the pandemic until mid-April, the risk profile of women with respiratory complications, and short-term pregnancy outcomes.

Methods: We collected a case series of pregnant women with COVID-19 in a research network of 33 French maternity units between March 1 and April 14, 2020. All cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection confirmed by a positive result on real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction tests of a nasal sample and/or diagnosed by a computed tomography chest scan were included and analyzed.

Proportion of Cytotoxic Peripheral Blood Natural Killer Cells and T-Cell Large Granular Lymphocytes in Recurrent Miscarriage and Repeated Implantation Failure: Case-Control Study and Meta-analysis.

We aimed to compare the proportion of peripheral blood natural killer (NK) cells (CD3CD56) and T-cell large granular lymphocytes (CD8CD57) during preconception in a homogenous group of women with unexplained well-defined recurrent miscarriage (RM) and repeated implantation failure (RIF) vs healthy controls in relation to pregnancy outcomes. This case-control study followed by a literature review and meta-analysis was conducted in three university hospitals. Patients and controls were consecutively recruited from December 2015 to October 2017.

Threatened preterm birth: Validation of a nomogram to predict the individual risk of very preterm delivery in a secondary care center.

Introduction: Very preterm delivery (22-32 weeks of gestation) remains a major cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. The objective of this study was to validate a statistical model allowing to predict the risk of preterm delivery to use as a clinical decision-making tool for in utero transfer from a secondary to a tertiary care center.

Methods: Retrospective observational study in a secondary care center (approximately 2500 births) in Paris, France.

Antagonists of TNFα for recurrent miscarriages: 2 Illustrative cases.

Approximately 1 to 3% of women have recurrent early miscarriages, defined as ≥3 pregnancy losses before 14 weeks of gestation. The immune deregulation and tolerance rupture could be the origin of these miscarriages in at least 30% of these women. Chronic intervillositis of unknown etiology (CIUE) is a rare placental lesion characterized by intrauterine deaths, growth restriction and high recurrence rate.

LDL-apheresis to decrease sFlt-1 during early severe preeclampsia: Report of two cases from a discontinued phase II trial.

Objective: Severe preeclampsia may require the delivery of the placenta to avoid life-threatening complications for the mother. Before 26 weeks of gestation, this often results in perinatal death. A decrease in soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase 1 (sFlt1), an anti-angiogenic factor central to the pathophysiology of the maternal syndrome, has been reported after LDL- apheresis.

Adult onset Still's disease occurring during pregnancy: Case-report and literature review.

Introduction: Adult onset Still's disease is a rare affection classified among non-hereditary autoinflammatory diseases. We here report a case of AOSD revealed during pregnancy with a life-threatening presentation along with a review of 19 cases from literature.

Case: A 38-years old woman was treated in our department for diffuse systemic sclerosis and associated Sjögren syndrome.

Treatment of Intramyometrial Pregnancy by In Situ Injection of Methotrexate.

Intramyometrial ectopic pregnancies are rare, and various management modalities have been described. We report a patient with intramyometrial pregnancy who was successfully treated by in situ injection of methotrexate (MTX) after the failure of 2 intramuscular injections of MTX. We emphasize the difficult management of intramyometrial pregnancy and show that in situ MTX injection may be indicated for this particular type of ectopic pregnancy.

Unexplained Recurrent Miscarriage and Recurrent Implantation Failure: Is There a Place for Immunomodulation?

To describe and analyze the benefit of immunomodulatory drugs for recurrent miscarriages and implantation failures. The literature research was conducted in Medline, Embase and Cochrane Library concerning recurrent miscarriages and implantation failures and steroids, progesterone, intralipids, TNF-α antagonists, G-CSF, hydroxychloroquine, intravenous immunoglobulins, endometrial scratching. Using meta-analysis, modest benefit was found for progesterone to obtain a live birth, with odds ratio at 1.

Diagnostic Value of MR Imaging in the Diagnosis of Adnexal Torsion.

Purpose: To retrospectively evaluate the diagnostic performance of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging for the diagnosis of adnexal torsion in a series of patients with an equivocal adnexal mass at ultrasonography (US) in the context of acute or subacute pelvic pain.

Materials And Methods: The institutional ethics committee approved the study and waived informed consent. All patients with acute or subacute pelvic pain who were undergoing MR examination for the exploration of an equivocal adnexal mass (January 2007 to December 2012) with surgical exploration or clinical and radiologic follow-up of at least 3 months were retrospectively included (n = 58).

B-type natriuretic peptide measurement for early diagnosis of acute pulmonary edema during pregnancy.

Calcium-channel blockers administered to pregnant women as tocolytic agents can cause acute pulmonary edema. The first signs of this severe complication can be atypical and so delay introduction of appropriate therapy. We describe three cases in whom B-type natriuretic peptide measurements proved to be relevant in early diagnosis and monitoring of pregnant women with acute pulmonary edema.

Outcome and etiologies of fetal megacystis according to the gestational age at diagnosis.

Objective: To investigate the gestational age-specific outcomes and the different etiologies of megacystis diagnosed at screening ultrasound.

Methods: A retrospective single-center study was conducted between 1989 and 2009. We identified all consecutive cases of megacystis prenatally diagnosed during routine ultrasound screening.

A long-term competent chimeric immune system in a dizygotic dichorionic twin.

We present here a rare case that involved the long-term coexistence of 2 mature, functional, and equilibrated immune systems in a single child after fetofetal transfusion between dizygotic twins. A dichorionic diamniotic pregnancy complicated by twin anemia-polycythemia sequence resulted in the demise of 1 twin. The detection of abnormal vessels on the dichorionic plate strongly suggested the existence of functional vascular anastomoses leading to blood chimerism in the survivor.

Gigantomastia and vulvar lactating adenoma in a patient with myasthenia during pregnancy.

We report the association of gigantomastia during pregnancy and a lactating adenoma in ectopic breast tissue of the vulva in a context of myasthenia in a 27-year-old primigravid woman. We discuss the pathophysiologic condition and management of gigantomastia that involves ectopic breast tissue during pregnancy.

Careful cardiovascular screening and follow-up of women with Turner syndrome before and during pregnancy is necessary to prevent maternal mortality.

Objective: To report the fatal outcome of a woman with Turner syndrome (TS) undergoing assisted reproductive technology (ART).

Design: Case report.

Setting: Reproductive medicine center.