[Recommendations for clinical practice: Prevention and management of varicella zoster virus (VZV) infection during pregnancy and the perinatal period (extended version)].

The Société de Pathologie Infectieuse de Langue Française released in 2024 a new national recommendation for clinical practice on the prevention and management of varicella zoster virus (VZV) infection during pregnancy and the perinatal period. The previous recommendation was issued in 1998, at a time of anti-VZV immunoglobulins shortage; it has hence become obsolete. This recommendation is a formalized expert consensus focusing on infectious diseases management; it is drawn up by a multidisciplinary working group (infectiologists, obstetricians, pediatricians, microbiologists, midwives, hygienists).

Umbilical cord arterial and venous gases, ionogram, and glucose level for predicting neonatal morbidity at term.

Objective: To determine which parameter of umbilical arterial cord gas analysis, pH, base deficit, lactate concentration, ionogram values, or glucose level index is the best predictor of neonatal morbidity at term.

Design: We conducted a 15-month retrospective cohort study that included all nonanomalous, singleton, term births at a single center. The predictive ability of lactate concentration, base deficit, pH, ionogram values, and glucose level were compared using receiver-operating characteristic curves for global and neurological composite morbidity.

Autonomic response to fetal acidosis using an experimental sheep model.

Background: The autonomic nervous system has a major role in fetal adaptation to hypoxia. Its activity might be assessed using heart rate variability and heart rate deceleration analyses.

Objective: To evaluate the ability of different heart rate variability and morphological deceleration analyses to predict fetal acidosis during labor in an experimental fetal sheep model.

Fertiloscopy in women with unexplained infertility: Long-term cumulative pregnancy rate.

Objective: Fertiloscopy is as safe as laparoscopy in literature, but we don't know its relevance in women with unexplained infertility (UI). Our objective was to assess the effects of fertiloscopy procedures on the outcomes of subsequent pregnancy occurrences in patients with UI.

Methods: Retrospective, single-center study of all patients followed up after fertiloscopy procedures between 2002 and 2007.