A case report of a pregnant woman with compensated liver cirrhosis and pancytopenia.

Key Clinical Message: Liver cirrhosis may worsen during pregnancy resulting in adverse maternal and fetal outcomes. Proper antenatal evaluation, staging, and variceal screening will facilitate the management. Elective endoscopic variceal ligation (EVL) during the second trimester can prevent unexpected variceal bleeding.

The effect of second trimester emergency cervical cerclage on perinatal outcome.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of emergency cervical cerclage and to determine predictors of failure or success in women with cervical incompetence.

Methods: Medical records were reviewed for clinical and demographic data, gestational age at time of cerclage, cerclage-delivery interval, gestational age at time of delivery; and birth weight. Predictors of success and failure were analyzed.

The role of 4-D ultrasonography in prenatal assessment of fetal neurobehaviour and prediction of neurological outcome.

Objective: To determine the role of 4-D ultrasonography in prenatal assessment of fetal neurobehavior and in prediction of adverse neurological outcome.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Setting: Women Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar.

The potential of 4D sonography in the assessment of fetal neurobehavior--multicentric study in high-risk pregnancies.

Objective: An evolving challenge for obstetrician is to better define normal and abnormal fetal neurological function in utero in order to better predict antenatally which fetuses are at risk for adverse neurological outcome.

Patients And Methods: Prenatal neurological assessment in high-risk fetuses using four-dimensional ultrasound applying the recently developed Kurjak antenatal neurodevelopmental test (KANET). Postnatal neurological assessment was performed using Amiel Tison's neurological assessment at term (ATNAT) for all live-borns and general movement (GM) assessment for those with borderline and abnormal ATNAT.