Clinical chorioamnionitis criteria are not sufficient for predicting intra-amniotic infection.

Aim: To evaluate the diagnostic performance of three conventional clinical chorioamnionitis criteria; including Gibbs, Lencki, and suspected triple I; for the prediction of intra-amniotic infection.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted using data from three perinatal centers from 2014 to 2018. Patients with preterm labor or premature prelabor rupture of membranes between 22 and 33 weeks of gestation and those who underwent transabdominal amniocentesis to detect intra-amniotic infection were selected.

Manual removal of placenta in women having unpredictable adherent placenta.

Aim: Our aim is to provide expected outcomes for undergoing manual removal of placenta (MROP) following vaginal delivery in women having an unpredictable adherent placenta (AP).

Methods: The data were obtained from four hospitals in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. We used propensity score-matched (1:1) analysis to match women who underwent MROP with women who did not undergo MROP (control).

Fetal left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy with ascites: A case report.

Here we report a case of fetal left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy with ascites and cardiac dysfunction at a gestational age of 34  weeks. Laboratory tests did not reveal any sign of viral infection in utero. A female neonate weighing 2436 g was delivered by emergency cesarean section due to non-reassuring fetal status.

Maternal Morbidity in Women with Placenta Previa Managed with Prediction of Morbidly Adherent Placenta by Ultrasonography.

. To determine maternal morbidity in women with placenta previa managed with prediction of morbidly adherent placenta (MAP) by ultrasonography. .

Intrapartum fetal heart rate patterns preceding terminal bradycardia in infants (>34 weeks) with poor neurological outcome: A regional population-based study in Japan.

Aim: Intrapartum fetal bradycardia necessitates immediate operative delivery. Our aim was to investigate the hypothesis that some non-reassuring fetal heart rate (FHR) patterns were present before the onset of terminal bradycardia in infants who developed subsequent brain damage.

Material And Methods: From a population-based study of 65,197 deliveries, 190 stillbirths, 115 neonatal deaths, and 136 neurologically high-risk infants were registered by the Miyazaki Perinatal Conference.

Prospective study of the MD-twin score for antepartum evaluation of monochorionic diamniotic twins and its correlation with perinatal outcomes.

Aim: To assess the outcome of monochorionic diamniotic (MD) twins with the aid of the MD-twin score.

Methods: We enrolled 112 MD-twin women in a tertiary perinatal center from 1997 to 2009. The MD-twin score was prospectively applied once per week to women who did not have twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) after 26 weeks of gestation.