A recent study found that the cerebroplacental ratio (CPR) found by Doppler ultrasound, is a better predictor of intrapartum ...

Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are the most common birth defect, affecting nearly 1 in 100 newborns. In the United States, ...

In other situations, normal microarray analysis in the presence of an abnormal karyotype ... also depend on the indications for study, with fetal anomalies having the highest rates of chromosome ...

The Prenatal Screening Program. Maternal Serum Markers of Fetal Abnormalities: Progress in Prenatal Screening. MedGenMed 1(1), 1999. [formerly published in Medscape Women's Health eJournal 1(4 ...

Dystocia may occur with maternal or fetal causes. Maternal causes include primary uterine inertia, birth canal obstruction, ...

Medically reviewed by Alicen Nelson MD, MPH The navel, also known as the belly button or umbilicus, is a small, round, or ...

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Chromosome abnormality is the condition in a cell or organism where the number of chromosomes or the structure of any chromosome differs from the normal karyotype. When the variant genotype is not ...

Exclusion criteria: multiple pregnancies; still birth; fetal chromosomal abnormalities; fetal malformations; missing key medical data such as gestational age and birth weight. This study addressed ...

Nora Rosenberg summarises the largest and most comprehensive study to date on metabolomic pathways to antenatal depression, ...