News tagged with repeat cesarean


Repeat C-section before 39 weeks raises risk of neonatal illness

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Women choosing repeat cesarean deliveries and having them at term but before completing 39 weeks gestation are up to two times more likely to have a baby with serious complications including respiratory distress resulting ...





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Study able to predict which cesarean births could cause uterine rupture

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) annual meeting, researchers will unveil findings that show that by using a sonogram to measure the lower uterine segment (LUS) thickness, ...


Regional blocks superior to general anesthesia for cesarean section

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

General anesthesia (GA) is associated with an increased risk of infant intubation and low Apgar scores, relative to regional anesthesia. An analysis of 50,806 cesarean deliveries, published in the open access journal BMC Me ...


Team finds labor induction need not increase cesarean risk

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created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Contrary to a belief widely held by obstetricians, inducing labor need not increase a woman's risk for cesarean section delivery in childbirth, scientists at the University of California, San Francisco and the Stanford University ...


Repeat pregnancies among UK teenagers on the increase

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An expert in health services at The University of Nottingham is calling for urgent action to improve contraceptive advice and services to reduce the growing number of repeat teenage pregnancies in the United ...


Research breakthrough targets genetic diseases

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A cure for debilitating genetic diseases such as Huntington’s disease, Friedreich’s ataxia and Fragile X syndrome is a step closer to reality, thanks to a recent scientific breakthrough.


Mayo researchers find anesthesia not harmful for babies during birth process

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created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Mayo Clinic researchers have found that children exposed to anesthesia during Cesarean section are not at any higher risk for learning disabilities later in life than children not delivered by C-section. These findings are ...


HPV testing followed by cytology and repeat HPV testing may improve cervical cancer screening

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The use of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing as an initial screening step followed by triage with a standard Pap test (cytology) and repeat HPV DNA testing may increase the accuracy of cervical cancer screening, according ...


Of yeast and men: Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of Friedreich's ataxia

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers in human genetics have long known that expansions of GAA repeats - resulting in this nucleotide triplet repeating hundreds or thousands of times - cause the most common hereditary neurological disorder known as ...


Predicting higher risk for prostate cancer diagnosis

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

High-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN) carries a high predictive value for future diagnosis of prostate cancer. Research published in the open access journal BMC Urology has shown that 41.8% of patients whose ...


Where physician completed obstetrical residency may provide quality-of-care indicator

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created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A ranking of obstetrics and gynecology training programs based on the maternal complication rates of their graduates' patients found these rankings consistent across individual types of complications, suggesting that these ...



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