Effects of psychological stress on adverse pregnancy outcomes and nonpharmacologic approaches for reduction: an expert review

CS Traylor, JD Johnson, MC Kimmel… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Both acute and chronic stress can cause allostatic overload, or long-term imbalance in
mediators of homeostasis, that results in disruptions in the maternal-placental-fetal …

Preterm brain injury, antenatal triggers, and therapeutics: timing is key

DRMG Ophelders, R Gussenhoven, L Klein… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
With a worldwide incidence of 15 million cases, preterm birth is a major contributor to
neonatal mortality and morbidity, and concomitant social and economic burden Preterm …

Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) for respiratory distress in preterm infants

JJ Ho, P Subramaniam… - Cochrane database of …, 2020 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Respiratory distress, particularly respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), is the
single most important cause of morbidity and mortality in preterm infants. In infants with …

Perinatal brain injury and inflammation: lessons from experimental murine models

A Leavy, EM Jimenez Mateos - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Perinatal brain injury or neonatal encephalopathy (NE) is a state of disturbed neurological
function in neonates, caused by a number of different aetiologies. The most prominent cause …

Neonatal outcome after preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome: a population-based cohort study in Germany

V Bossung, MI Fortmann, C Fusch, T Rausch… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Aim: To analyze short term outcomes of very low birth weight infants (VLBWI) born preterm
after maternal preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome within the German Neonatal Network …

Cervical pessary to prevent preterm birth in asymptomatic high-risk women: a systematic review and meta-analysis

A Conde-Agudelo, R Romero, KH Nicolaides - American journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Randomized controlled trials that have assessed the efficacy of cervical
pessary to prevent preterm birth in asymptomatic high-risk women have reported conflicting …

Prospective evaluation of the uterocervical angle as a predictor of spontaneous preterm birth

A Farras Llobet, T Higueras, IZ Calero… - Acta obstetricia et …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction The uterocervical angle has been proposed as an ultrasound marker to predict
spontaneous preterm birth; however, the studies that provided this evidence were …

How I treat lymphoma in pregnancy

K Dunleavy, C McLintock - Blood, The Journal of the American …, 2020 - ashpublications.org
Lymphomas afflict all age groups of people, with certain types demonstrating a female
predilection in adolescents and young adults. A proportion of lymphomas that are diagnosed …

Identifying potential biomarkers related to pre-term delivery by proteomic analysis of amniotic fluid

S Hong, JE Lee, YM Kim, Y Park, JW Choi, KH Park - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
We sought to identify biomarkers in the amniotic fluid (AF) and specific signaling pathways
related to spontaneous preterm delivery (SPTD,< 34 weeks) in women with preterm labor …

A protein microarray analysis of amniotic fluid proteins for the prediction of spontaneous preterm delivery in women with preterm premature rupture of membranes at …

HJ Kim, KH Park, YM Kim, E Joo, K Ahn, S Shin - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Objective We sought to identify novel biomarkers in the amniotic fluid (AF) related to
imminent spontaneous preterm delivery (SPTD)(≤ 14 days after sampling) in women with …