A pilot study and case reports on endometrial microbiota and pregnancy outcome: An analysis using 16S rRNA gene sequencing among IVF patients, and trial therapeutic intervention for dysbiotic endometrium.

Purpose: The present study aimed to analyze the pregnancy outcomes of IVF patients presenting -dominated microbiota (LDM) or non--dominated microbiota (NLDM) of their endometrium and to report cases who were treated for NLDM concurrently with antibiotics and prebiotic/probiotic supplements in a Japanese infertile population.

Methods: Ninety-two IVF patients were recruited from August 2017 to March 2018. Endometrial fluid samples for sequencing were collected using an IUI catheter.

[Anesthetic Management of Massive Postpartum Haemorrhage in Which Uterine Compression Sutures Were Used].

Background: Uteline compression sutures which preserve portion of placenta tends to cause disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). But there have been no reports of anesthetic management of massive postpartum haemorrhage in which uterine compression sutures were used.

Methods: We reviewed the anesthetic management of 9 cases of massive postpartum haemorrhage in which uterine compression sutures were used in our hospital from May 2010 until Sep 2012.

Correlations between stress hormone levels in umbilical cord blood and duration of delivery.

Correlations between umbilical cord blood concentration of stress response hormone cortisol and prolactin, and delivery duration were examined. Thirty-three cases were selected in which both mothers and neonates were healthy, and the neonates were delivered at full term. The umbilical cord blood was collected at the time of delivery and concentrations of cortisol and prolactin were measured.

Successful living donor liver transplantation for fulminant hepatic failure that manifested immediately after cesarean delivery.

A 31-year-old pregnant woman was diagnosed as having acute hepatitis of unknown etiology and conservatively treated. An emergency cesarean delivery was performed 5 days later at 33 weeks and 3 days of gestation because of a gradual deterioration in liver function. Two days after the cesarean delivery, she lost consciousness in the evening (Glasgow coma scale [GCS] = 9) because of hepatic encephalopathy and was diagnosed as having fulminant hepatic failure (FHF).