Comparison of obstetric and neonatal outcomes between Syrian adolescent refugees and local Turkish adolescent citizens.

The provision of antenatal care in adolescents in refugee populations presents particular difficulties because of conflict, nutritional deficiencies, language barriers and lack of access to health care facilities. Due to the absence of prenatal care, associated medical complications can occur. A total of 525 adolescent women who gave birth to singletons agreed to participate in this study.

Could fibrinogen to albumin ratio be a predictive marker for recurrent pregnancy loss.

Aims: Recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) is usually defined by two or more consecutive clinical miscarriages, which causes psychological trauma for couples. In this study, we aimed to investigate the predictive role of fibrinogen to albumin ratio (FAR) in patients with RPL.

Methods: Pregnant women in their first trimester of pregnancy were included in the study and divided into two groups as RPL patients (n: 44) and patients with no previous recurrent miscarriage (n: 60) as control group.

Could the Valsalva manoeuvre be an alternative to the tenaculum for intrauterine device insertion?

Objectives: This study investigated whether the Valsalva manoeuvre (VM) could be an alternative to use of the tenaculum for intrauterine device (IUD) insertion. The aims were to establish whether VM could provide good patient comfort and enable the insertion to be performed successfully with adequate pain control in cases where the cervix could not be passed spontaneously.

Methods: Women who attended the outpatient clinic of Alanya Education and Research Hospital between November 2017 and December 2020 for IUD insertion were randomly assigned to the VM ( = 52) or tenaculum ( = 55) group.

Prenatal diagnosis of fetal cardiac rhabdomyoma associated with tuberous sclerosis: A case report.

Cardiac tumors are rarely diagnosed in utero. Rhabdomyomas are the most common fetal cardiac tumors. They are usually diagnosed during the first year of life after obstruction of a valve orifice or a cardiac chamber; but they can be detected by echocardiography as early as the second trimester.