ABSTRACT World Health Organization antenatal care recommendations include an
ultrasound scan as a part of routine antenatal care. The impact of routine ultrasound imaging …

The joy that every expectant couple, family, or community has when a woman gets pregnant
is suddenly turned into sorrow and mourning when the woman dies during pregnancy or …

Background In high-resource settings, obstetric ultrasound is a standard component of
prenatal care used to identify pregnancy complications and to establish an accurate …

Today we are living in a globalized world in which information on what is happening in one
part of the world is easily communicated to other parts of the world. This happens thanks to …

There are vast inequalities across maternal and infant mortality with the developing world
accounting for the majority of the burden. Within countries there are also disparities between …

Maternal and neonatal health is one of the main global health challenges. Every day,
approximately 800 women and 7,000 newborns die due to complications during pregnancy …

The major issues in obstetric practice in developing countries are the high rates of maternal
and perinatal mortality. In most low-income countries health financing systems are not well …

E-mail: abuhamaz@ evms. edu larming rates of maternal and infant mortality exist in the
developing world, with no significant improvement over the past decade. Obstetric …

Objective Ultrasound is widely regarded as an important adjunct to antenatal care (ANC) to
guide practice and reduce perinatal mortality. We assessed the impact of ANC ultrasound …

The potential benefits of obstetric ultrasound have yet to be fully realized in sub-Saharan
Africa (SSA), despite the region bearing the greatest burden of poor perinatal outcomes. We …