Prediction of progression to a high risk situation in women with gestational hypertension or mild pre-eclampsia at term.

Objective: To evaluate whether progression to a high-risk situation is predictable in women with gestational hypertension (GH) or mild pre-eclampsia (PE) at term.

Methods: Women with a singleton pregnancy, a fetus in cephalic position, between 36 and 41 weeks of gestation, complicated by GH or mild PE that were managed expectantly, were selected from the HYPITAT trial. We evaluated the predictability of progression to a high-risk situation.

Fetal urine production in late pregnancy.

Objective. Hourly fetal urine production rate (HFUPR) was studied in relation to both gestational age and the onset of spontaneous labor in normal term human pregnancies. Methods.

Severe umbilical cord acidemia and neurological outcome in preterm and full-term neonates.

Background: Severe intrauterine hypoxia-ischemia and acidemia may lead to a disturbed neurodevelopment.

Objectives: To study the effects of acidemia at birth on neurodevelopment in preterm and full-term neonates.

Subjects And Methods: Short- and long-term outcome were studied retrospectively in 44 inborn preterms and 95 full-terms with severe acidemia at birth defined as a pH of the umbilical artery <7.

Cerebral structure and metabolism and long-term outcome in small-for-gestational-age preterm neonates.

In the present study, we compared brain development and metabolism of small-for-gestational-age (SGA) and appropriate-for-gestational-age (AGA) infants using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H-MRS). We tested the hypothesis that intrauterine growth retardation caused by placental insufficiency is associated with changes in cerebral metabolism and is followed by an adverse neurodevelopmental outcome at the age of 2 y. Twenty-six AGA and 14 SGA (birth weight