Maternal pre-pregnancy weight and gestational weight gain and their association with birthweight with a focus on racial differences.

Our objectives were to examine the interaction between maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) and their association with birthweight, with a focus on racial differences. We used birth certificate data from live singleton births of South Carolina resident mothers, who self-reported their race as non-Hispanic white (NHW, n = 140, 128) or non-Hispanic black (NHB, n = 82,492) and who delivered at 34-44 weeks of gestation between 2004 and 2008 to conduct a cross-sectional study. Linear regression was used to examine the relationship between our exposures (i.

Examining the effect of maternal obesity on outcome of labor induction in patients with preeclampsia.

Objective: The objective of this investigation was to evaluate the effect of maternal obesity, as measured by prepregnancy body mass index (BMI), on the mode of delivery in women undergoing indicated induction of labor for preeclampsia.

Study Design: Following Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval, patients with preeclampsia who underwent an induction of labor from 1997 to 2007 were identified from a perinatal information database, which included historical and clinical information. Data analysis included bivariable and multivariable analyses of predictor variables by mode of delivery.

Plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in early-onset severe preeclampsia.

Objective: Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to adverse pregnancy outcomes. The purpose of this investigation was to assess total 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-OH-D) levels at diagnosis of early-onset severe preeclampsia (EOSPE).

Study Design: After institutional review board approval, we enrolled subjects with EOSPE (<34 weeks' gestation with severe preeclampsia) in this case-control investigation in a 1:2 ratio with gestation-matched, contemporaneous control subjects.

Complications of cesarean delivery in the massively obese parturient.

Objective: The objective of the study was to determine predictors of cesarean delivery morbidity associated with massive obesity.

Study Design: This was an institutional review board-approved retrospective study of massively obese women (body mass index, > or = 50 kg/m(2)) undergoing cesarean delivery. Bivariable and multivariable analyses were used to assess the strength of association between wound complication and various predictors.

Maternal super-obesity (body mass index > or = 50) and adverse pregnancy outcomes.

Objective: To determine if pregnancy complications are increased in super-obese (a body mass index (BMI) of 50 or more) compared to other, less obese parturients.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting And Population: All 19,700 eligible women, including 425 (2.

Early-onset severe preeclampsia: induction of labor vs elective cesarean delivery and neonatal outcomes.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to describe the success rate of and analyze differences in neonatal outcomes with labor induction, compared with elective cesarean delivery in women with early-onset severe preeclampsia.

Study Design: We conducted a cross-sectional study of women with severe preeclampsia who required delivery between 24 and 34 weeks of gestation. Bivariate and multivariable regression analyses were used to determine factors that were associated with assignment to, success of, and odds of neonatal outcomes after induction of labor.

Preoperative magnetic resonance imaging and antepartum myomectomy of a giant pedunculated leiomyoma.

Background: Antepartum myomectomy is reserved for severe pain and prevention of fetal complications. Magnetic resonance imaging has been useful in nonpregnant women for preoperative management and patient counseling.

Case: A primigravida was admitted at 12 weeks of gestation in severe acute abdominal pain with a large abdominal mass, confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging to be a pedunculated 30x27x19-cm uterine leiomyoma.