Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica
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Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand · May 2014
Maternal mortality among HIV-infected pregnant women in Tanzania.
To investigate risk factors for maternal mortality among HIV-infected women in Tanzania. ⋯ Maternal mortality was high among HIV-infected women. Initiating women on antiretroviral therapy as early as possible and providing nutritional interventions during pregnancy should be considered as means to reduce the maternal mortality among these women.
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Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand · May 2014
Controlled Clinical TrialThe descent of the fetal head is not modified by mobile epidural analgesia: a controlled sonographic study.
The aim of our study was to assess the sonographic indices of fetal head progression obtained by three-dimensional ultrasound during the second stage of labor in women with and without mobile epidural analgesia. Sonographic volume data sets were obtained with a transperineal approach every 20 min from the beginning of the active second stage until delivery. ⋯ All the sonographic measurements of the fetal head descent were comparable at each time interval between the two groups. This observation suggests that mobile epidural analgesia is not likely to affect the dynamics of the second stage of labor.