Plasma prolactin axis shift from placental to pituitary origin in late prepartum mice by Taku James Sairenji, Shinnosuke Masuda, Yuya Higuchi, Mitsue Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Yajima, Oh Kwan Ee, Yuki Fujiwara, Takuya Araki, Noriaki Shimokawa, Noriyuki Koibuchi

“…By measuring maternal plasma PRL3B1 and PRL every 4 hrs from gestational day 17 (G17), we newly discovered that maternal plasma PRL3B1 levels decrease rapidly in prepartum C57BL/6 mice. …”
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Fluorescein Angiographic Findings of Peripheral Retinal Vasculature after Intravitreal Conbercept versus Ranibizumab for Retinopathy of Prematurity by Enzhong Jin, Hong Yin, Yufei Gui, Juan Chen, Jian Zhang, Jianhong Liang, Xiao-xin Li, Mingwei Zhao

“…For infants of the IVC group, the mean gestational age, birth weight, and postmenstrual age (PMA) at the initial treatment were 28.96 ± 2.36 weeks, 1168.8 ± 344.5 g, and 41.22 ± 4.39 weeks, respectively. …”
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“Unmasking the Uncommon”: A case series of multi-drug resistant Elizabethkingia meningoseptica causing late-onset sepsis and meningitis in preterm neonates [version 2; peer review:... by Anisha Maria Fernandes, Sinchana Bhat, Suchitra Shenoy M., Prajnha U.P.

“…Case 3 was a one-day-old preterm baby, appropriate-to-gestational age, presenting with respiratory distress syndrome. …”
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Association of Adverse Perinatal Outcomes with Blood Components Transfusion in Patients with Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy by Pan X, Chu R, Qiao X, Zhang X, Li L, Zhang W

“…These patients had reduced gestational ages and exhibited more severe clinical symptoms. …”
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Profile of postpartum patients with urinary retention at Koja Regional Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia by Suskhan Djusad, Alfa Putri Meutia, Surahman Hakim

“…Data analysis, performed using SPSS version 22, included patient demographics and clinical factors such as maternal age, parity, gestational age, neonatal birth weight, and postvoid residual urine volume. …”
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Effect of a perinatal care quality improvement package on patient satisfaction: a secondary outcome analysis of a cluster-randomised controlled trial by Ashish KC, Anna Bergstrom, Mats Målqvist, Dipak Chaulagain, Olivia Brunell

“…Participating hospitals were randomised by size into four different wedges.Setting 12 secondary-level public hospitals in Nepal.Participants Women who gave birth in the hospitals at a gestational age of ≥22 weeks, with fetal heart sound at admission. …”
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Risk factors associated with the failure of local methotrexate combined with minimally invasive surgery for late cesarean scar pregnancy by Xiao-Tong Cheng, Yan-Song Liu, Dan-Yang Song, Xiao-Cui Nie, Yu-Shi Xiang, Ju-Min Niu

“…Cesarean scar pregnancy was classified as type I, II, or III based on the direction of growth of the gestational sac and the residual myometrial thickness as assessed by ultrasound. …”
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Newborn morbidities and care procedures at the special newborn care units of Gandaki Province, Nepal: a retrospective study by Khim Bahadur Khadka, Nabina Koirala, Olena Ivanova, Ramchandra Bastola, Dela Singh, Kamala Rana Magar, Bidhya Banstola, Ramesh Prasad Adhikari, Vincentas Giedraitis, Deepak Paudel, Guenter Froeschl

“…The mean age of mothers at the time of delivery was 24.4 years; the average birth weight of babies was 2.8 kg; and the gestational week was 38 weeks. Around 96% of births occurred in healthcare facilities. …”
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A prediction nomogram for residual after negative pressure aspiration for endogenic cesarean scar ectopic pregnancy: a retrospective study by Yan Lei, Na Zhang, Yu Liu, Xin Du

“…Results Predictive factors included in the nomogram included age (hazard ratio [HR]: 1.220, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.135—1.316), BMI (HR: 0.890, 95% CI: 0.796—0.986), intraoperative major hemorrhage (HR: 4.457, 95% CI: 1.610—12.292), maximum diameter of the gestational sac (HR: 1.572, 95% CI: 1.295, 1.914), and thickness of the remaining muscle layer of the lower uterine segment (HR: 1.572, 95% CI: 0.014, 0.430). …”
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Maternal health risk factors dataset: Clinical parameters and insights from rural BangladeshMendeley Data by Mayen Uddin Mojumdar, Dhiman Sarker, Md Assaduzzaman, Hasin Arman Shifa, Md. Anisul Haque Sajeeb, Oahidul Islam, Md Shadikul Bari, Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Narayan Ranjan Chakraborty

“…It captures core health parameters such as age, blood pressure (systolic and diastolic), blood sugar levels, body temperature, BMI, current mental health status, pre-existing medical history, gestational diabetes status, and heart rate. The diversity of data collected in this dataset is essential for understanding potential health changes associated with pregnancy. …”
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Centering community-based maternal and child nutrition services in Bangladesh’s rural primary healthcare: what has potential to scale by Safina Abdulloeva, Arti Bhanot, Mohd. Aziz Khan, Md. Mofijul Islam Bulbul, Mijanur Rahman, Kaosar Afsana, Thomas Forissier, Deepika Sharma, Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam

“…Maternal nutrition services of gestational weight gain monitoring and distribution of supplements were better available in intervention areas. …”
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Immune-metabolic shifts in acute liver failure caused by HEV infection during pregnancy and their association with obstetric outcomes by Anoushka Saxena, Minal, Prabhjyoti Pahwa, Jaswinder Singh Maras, Hamda Siddiqui, Jayesh Kumar Sevak, Yedla Manikya Mala, Shakun Tyagi, Shiv K. Sarin, Nirupama Trehanpati

“…ALF-E showed increased naive T/B cells, decreased CD4, CD8 Tcm, Tem, and plasmablasts, compared to AVH-E contributing to higher failed inductions, preterm births, maternal complications like eclampsia, disseminated intravascular coagulation, preterm premature rupture of membranes, small-for-gestational-age infants, higher rates of intrauterine death, abortion, and mortality. …”
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Th2-Immune Polarizing and Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Insulin Are Not Effective in Type 2 Diabetic Pregnancy by Adnette Fagninou, Magloire Pandoua Nekoua, Darius Sossou, Kabirou Moutairou, Nadine Fievet, Akadiri Yessoufou

“…Here, we investigated the effects of insulin treatment on the frequencies of immune cell subpopulations as well as T cell-derived cytokines in type 2 diabetic (T2D) pregnancy compared to gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Methods. Fifteen (15) women with GDM, twenty (20) insulin-treated T2D pregnant women, and twenty-five (25) pregnant controls were selected. …”
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Development of autonomic innervation at the venous pole of the heart: bridging the gap from mice to human by Fleur Zwanenburg, Thomas A. Bos, Arend D. J. Ten Harkel, Monique C. Haak, Nathan D. Hahurij, Robert E. Poelmann, Conny J. van Munsteren, Lambertus J. Wisse, Nico A. Blom, Marco C. DeRuiter, Monique R. M. Jongbloed

“…Methods Wildtype mouse embryos (E9.5–E18.5) and healthy human fetuses (6–38 weeks gestational age (WGA)) were studied at sequential stages to obtain a comparative developmental series. …”
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Fetal Hemoglobin as a Predictive Biomarker for Retinopathy of Prematurity: A Prospective Multicenter Cohort Study in Portugal by Mariza Fevereiro-Martins, Laura Aguiar, Ângela Inácio, Carlos Cardoso, Ana Carolina Santos, Carlos Marques-Neves, Hercília Guimarães, Rui Pinto, Manuel Bicho

“…<b>Methods:</b> A multicenter, prospective study was conducted across eight Portuguese NICUs, involving infants born at <32 weeks gestational age (GA) or <1500 g. ROP staging followed the International Classification of ROP (ICROP2). …”
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Impact of endometrial thickness and its combined effect with maternal age on singleton adverse neonatal outcomes in frozen–thawed embryo transfer cycles by Jie Wang, Jie Wang, Lina Gao, Lina Gao, Qiaoyun Huang, Qiaoyun Huang, Weihua Jiang, Weihua Jiang, Linjun Chen, Linjun Chen, Shanshan Wang, Shanshan Wang

“…The primary outcome was preterm birth (PTB), and the secondary outcome included early PTB (EPTB), small/large for gestational age (SGA/LGA), and low birth weight (LBW).ResultsBaseline characteristics were unevenly distributed across EMT groups. …”
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Comparative effect of atorvastatin and risperidone on modulation of TLR4/NF-κB/NOX-2 in a rat model of valproic acid-induced autism by Eman A. E. Farrag, Mona H. Askar, Zienab Abdallah, Safinaz M. Mahmoud, Eman A. Abdulhai, Eman Abdelrazik, Eman Mohamad El Nashar, Faten Mohammed Alasiri, Asma Nasser Saeed Alqahtani, Mamdouh Eldesoqui, Ali M. Eldib, Alshimaa Magdy

“…The present study aimed to investigate the therapeutic effects of atorvastatin in autism and compare it with an approved autism drug (risperidone) through the impact of these drugs on TLR4/NF-κB/NOX-2 and the apoptotic pathway in a valproic acid (VPA) induced rat model of autism. Methods On gestational day 12.5, pregnant rats received a single IP injection of VPA (500 mg/kg), for VPA induced autism, risperidone and atorvastatin groups, or saline for control normal group. …”
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Impact of pandemic service changes on ethnic inequalities in maternal and perinatal outcomes in England: a population-based study by Andrew Judge, Erik Lenguerrand, Tim Draycott, Stamatina Iliodromiti, Asma Khalil, Buthaina Ibrahim, Jennifer Elizabeth Jardine

“…Self-reported ethnicity was grouped into White, South-Asian, Black, Mixed and Other.Main outcome measures Composite and component measures of maternal (emergency caesarean section, obstetric anal sphincter injury, hysterectomy, sepsis, anaesthetic complications and prolonged hospital stay) and perinatal (stillbirth, neonatal death, preterm birth, brain injury, small for gestational age and prolonged hospital stay). Poisson regression was used to compare relative risks between different ethnic groups.Findings 1.54 million maternal and 1.43 million neonatal records were included. …”
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Feasibility of fetal cardiac function and anatomy assessment by real-time spiral balanced steady-state free precession magnetic resonance imaging at 0.55T by Ye Tian, Jon Detterich, Jay D. Pruetz, Ecrin Yagiz, John C. Wood, Krishna S. Nayak

“…Results: Twenty-nine participants were enrolled for 32 CMR exams, with mean maternal age 33.6 ± 5.8 years (range 22–44 years) and mean gestational age 32.8 ± 3.9 weeks (range 23–38 weeks). …”
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Vaginal colonization and vertical transmission of Candida species: prevalence and associated factors among pregnant women and their neonates at public health facilities of Northeas... by Alemu Gedefie, Getnet Shimeles, Hilina Motbainor, Brhanu Kassanew, Chalachew Genet

“…Among Candida isolates, 63.3% (31/49) were C. albicans and 36.7% (18/49) were C. krusei. Gestational diabetes mellitus (AOR: 4.2, 95% CI: 1.23–38.6, P = 0.047) and HIV (AOR: 1.58, 95% CI: 1.11–6.12, P = 0.049) were independently associated with maternal colonization of Candida species. …”
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