Publications by authors named "W Schaarschmidt"

Objective: To compare the neonatal and maternal outcomes as well as the mode of delivery of intended vaginal breech deliveries in women with a prior cesarean section to primiparous patients.

Study Design: The prospective monocenter cohort study was conducted among 604 women who presented for an intended vaginal singleton breech delivery at term between January 2007 and December 2016.

Results: Out of 37 women with a prior cesarean 19 had a successful vaginal delivery.

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Introduction: The best way to deliver a term breech infant is still a much discussed topic among obstetricians. The question whether nulliparity should be considered an exclusion criterion for an intended vaginal breech delivery is not fully answered.

Objective: We compared maternal and neonatal outcome of intended vaginal breech deliveries of nulliparous versus multiparous women at term.

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Introduction: The clinical management of breech presentations at term is still a controversially discussed issue among clinicians. Clear predictive criteria for planned vaginal breech deliveries are desperately needed to prevent adverse fetal and maternal outcomes and to reduce elective cesarean section rates. The green-top guideline considers an estimated birth weight of 3.

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Preeclampsia is a devastating complication of pregnancy. Soluble Fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 (sFlt-1) is an antiangiogenic protein believed to mediate the signs and symptoms of preeclampsia. We conducted an open pilot study to evaluate the safety and potential efficacy of therapeutic apheresis with a plasma-specific dextran sulfate column to remove circulating sFlt-1 in 11 pregnant women (20-38 years of age) with very preterm preeclampsia (23-32 weeks of gestation, systolic BP ≥140 mmHg or diastolic BP ≥90 mmHg, new onset protein/creatinine ratio >0.

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