Pediatrics

The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation offers a wealth of resources to ob/gyns to improve birth outcomes by preventing birth defects and infant mortality. Future columns will focus on stress in pregnancy, preterm birth, genetics, and other perinatal topics.

Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency

When stomach, liver, or intestines herniate into the chest cavity of a fetus with this anomaly, they compress the fetal lung.

News Briefs

When patients present with pelvic pain, the list of diseases to consider is long and includes ectopic pregnancy, acute salpingitis, a variety of sexually transmitted diseases, acute dysmenorrhea, cervicitis, endometriosis, fibroids, and uterine inversion. But in your search for gynecologic causes, dont overlook common neurologic disorders outlined in this article.

Are elevated NRBC counts an indication of acute or chronic hypoxic-ischemic events? Is there an association with CP? With the answers still unclear, the authors review the existing evidence.

Gynecologists are in an ideal position to evaluate patients--particularly teens--for hyperandrogenism and initiate hormonal and nonhormonal treatment of acne. Topical therapy is appropriate first-line therapy and OCs are also an important part of the armamentarium.

Adopting a universal definition of stillbirth and linking the results of a placental autopsy to the fetal death certificate can help us collect the accurate data needed to address this major public health problem. Two experts in maternal-fetal medicine include these recommendations in their list of imperatives.

Androgen insensitivity

News Updates

News Updates

Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women in the US, but ob/gyns are missing opportunities to detect and assist victims. Periodic screening of all patients is recommended.

Commonly seen in the vaginal mucosa of sexually experienced individuals, these microorganisms are components of the abnormal flora associated with BV.

Delayed development can represent conditions ranging from problems that are easily treatable to life-threatening illness. The clinician's understanding of normal pubertal milestones shapes a diagnostic framework for identifying the underlying problem.

News Updates

Two drugs are now FDA-approved for use as postcoital contraception.

News Updates

Obstetricians should rethink maintenance tocolytic therapy for preterm labor. After a careful review, the authors find that there is little evidence to support this method.