European journal of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology
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Eur. J. Obstet. Gynecol. Reprod. Biol. · Feb 2018
Are the Wells Score and the Revised Geneva Score valuable for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism in pregnancy?
To evaluate and to compare the predictive accuracy of the Wells score and the revised Geneva scores for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism in the pregnant and postpartum population. ⋯ The Wells score and the revised Geneva seems not to be valuable in the pregnant and post partum population. A specific risk score of PE for pregnant and postpartum population is needed to reduce the rate of unnecessary imaging studies, especially in this specific population were the use of radiation and contrast agent is problematic.
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Eur. J. Obstet. Gynecol. Reprod. Biol. · Feb 2018
Maternal race/ethnicity as a risk factor for cervical insufficiency.
Preterm birth (PTB) affects 1 in 9 pregnancies in the United States. There are well known but poorly understood racial/ethnic disparities in PTB rates. The role that racial/ethnic disparities in cervical insufficiency (CI) may play in the overall disparities in preterm birth rates is unknown. ⋯ Black women had higher odds of CI compared to White women. This disparity may contribute to the significantly higher rate of PTB among Black women nationally. Further investigation of this association may provide important contributions to our understanding of both CI and PTB.