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Amniocentesis Q & A
Yesterday, I addressed the issue of ‘risk’ related to amniocentesis. I thought I should clarify that there are many different reasons we do an amniocentesis, and there are many different times during a pregnancy when it might be indicated that thi...
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Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy - Outcomes and Management
The other day we began a discussion of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, or obstetric cholestasis (OC). The post was prompted by the intrauterine death of an otherwise normal baby in a mother who had OC diagnosed late in pregnancy. Although...
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Grand Rounds 4.45 by Edwin Leap, MD
Many thanks to Edwin Leap, MD for putting the huge effort into compiling this week's Grand Rounds! I submitted a more obscure offering that was written in response to readers' questions related to FSH and Aneuploidy and am grateful he included it ...
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Polyploidy as a Cause of Early Pregnancy Loss
Probably one of the most popular series I have written over the past few years is the one on recurrent early pregnancy loss. There is not a week that goes by that I still don’t get inquiries related to that subject, most accompanied by the pain, ...
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Diabetes in Pregnancy - 11 - Hemoglobin A1c and Diabetic Control
In our last post, we discussed the preconceptional evaluation of the woman with pregestational diabetes – this evaluation pertains to women with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes. As part of the evaluation, we mentioned screening for ‘hemoglobin A...
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This Weeks' Best of Health Matters
The Health Matters HealthBlog Network consists of a dozen independent and unfiltered medical professionals blogging about the topics that matter to you. Each week, Healthline's Editors select the three top posts from the network to share with all ...
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Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) and Pregnancy
Below is a recent comment from a reader in which she asks several interesting questions, but the most important answer was to a question she did not ask...!• At Sun Feb 17, 08:23:00 PM 2008, Seri said…I read your answers to the patient who had a D...
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Grand Rounds Thanks to ScienceRoll
Many thanks to Bertalan Mesko at "ScienceRoll" for Grand Rounds 4.22: The Future of Medicine and for including a link to my post regarding "Abnormal Sperm Morphology and Recurrent Pregnancy Loss." When we evaluate the couple for recurrent early pr...
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Retinal Arteriole Occlusion in Early Pregnancy
The comment below was left on a recent post regarding "Readers' Questions Related to MTHFR Polymorphisms." The reader presents a very unusual complication early in her first pregnancy - retinal arteriole occlusion - and the response to her query ...
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Misunderstanding Group B Streptococcus (GBS)
There is not a week that goes by when I don't get a bunch of questions regarding Group B Streptoccus (GBS) infections, either on this site or at the office. GBS is an endless source of stress, misunderstanding, and sometimes over-reaction. For exa...
