Background: The choice to give birth at home with a regulated midwife in attendance became
available to expectant women in British Columbia in 1998. The purpose of this study was …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ability of two different modes of
antepartum fetal testing to screen for the presence of peripartum morbidity, as measured by the …

Objective: Prenatal ultrasonography can localize the level of the spinal cord malformation,
allowing prediction of the potential postnatal neurological deficit and functional prognosis. …

Fifty-one patients underwent emergency cervical cerclage using Shirodkar or McDonald
suture for incompetent cervix diagnosed during pregnancy. Fifteen patients had only …

OBJECTIVE: To review the outcomes of pregnancies in women with cystic fibrosis (CF) and
to address issues pertinent to the obstetric care of such women. DATA SOURCES: English-…

A retrospective review of 5,539 fetal echocardiograms over a 22-year period revealed 85 cases
of dextrocardia. In primary dextrocardia (46 cases), the incidence of situs solitus, inversus…

Objective: To quantify the association of prenatally diagnosed atrioventricular septal defect
with Down syndrome and to evaluate its impact on obstetric and neonatal outcomes. Methods…

Twin transfusion sysdrome is a serious complication of monozygotic twin pregnancy. Diagnostic
ultrasound now allows early diagnosis of this condition, but therapy has remained more …

A case report is presented of a parturient who suffered severe hypotension and pulmonary
oedema following an overdose of intramyometrial prostaglandin F 2 alpha. Oxytocin induction …

Selective embryocide was performed as a two-stage procedure in a patient with a quintuplet
pregnancy in the first trimester. No complications occurred, and the patient was delivered of …