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Pessary plus progesterone to prevent preterm birth in women with short cervixes...
Pacagnella, Rodolfo de Carvalho; Silva, Thais V.; Cecatti, José Guilherme; Passini Jr., Renato; Fanton, Tatiana F.; Borovac-Pinheiro, AndersonConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); OBJECTIVE: To test the effectiveness of cervical pessary in addition to vaginal progesterone for the prevention of preterm birth in women with midpregnancy short cervixes. METHODS: We performed a multicenter, open-label, randomized controlled trial in 17 perinatal centers. Asymptomatic women with singleton or twin pregnancies and cervical len...
A randomized controlled trial on the use of pessary plus progesterone to preven...
Pacagnella, Rodolfo de Carvalho; Mol, Ben W.; Borovac-Pinheiro, Anderson; Passini Jr., Renato; Nomura, Marcelo Luís; Andrade, Kleber CursinoConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Background: Preterm birth is the leading cause of mortality and disability in newborn and infants. Having a short cervix increases the risk of preterm birth, which can be accessed by a transvaginal ultrasound scan during the second trimester. In women with a short cervix, vaginal progesterone and pessary can both reduce this risk, which proge...
Pregnancies with an outcome of fetal death present higher risk of delays in obs...
Martins, Marley Carvalho Feitosa; Feitosa, Francisco Edson de Lucena; Viana Júnior, Antonio Brazil; Correia, Luciano Lima; Ibiapina, Flávio Lúcio PontesThe objective of this study was identify the association between delays in the care provided to pregnant women and the fetal death outcome, in a tertiary reference maternity hospital in the Northeastern Brazil. A case-control study, with 72 cases of fetal death and 144 controls (live births) in women admitted to the Obstetrics Service of the Assis Chateaubriand Teaching Maternity Hospital, in Fortaleza, Ceara´ ...