FORZANO L.

Aim. The aim of this paper was to determine whether maternal BMI influences breastfeeding practice in quality and duration Methods. A retrospective case-control study were included Fifty women with Body Max Index (BMI) ≥25 kg/m 2 considered overweigh and obese and fifty controls with BMI<25 kg/m 2 who delivered in our clinic between 2010 and...

Objectives: Ovarian cancer is the fourth leading cause of death among neoplastic diseases in women. In spite of constant improvement in surgical, chemotherapeutic and immunologic techniques, which can induce long remission periods, the five-year survival rate has not really changed over the past thirty years. We tried to create a sonographic...

The objective of this study was to compare the safety and efficacy of atosiban and ritodrine in the treatment of threatened preterm labour (TPL) and to analyse the predictive factors of preterm delivery. We retrospectively sampled data on 380 women hospitalised for TPL (24-35 weeks' gestation), in our clinic between 2004 and 2007. All were...

Objective: In normal pregnancies, a hypoxic intrauterine environment seems necessary for early trophoblast development. In this context, maternal serum levels of ischemia-modified albumin (IMA) are elevated, reflecting the oxidative stress associated with placental development. The aim of this study was to evaluate IMA and pregnancy-associated...