Obstetrics and gynecology
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Obstetrics and gynecology · Dec 2003
Practice Guideline GuidelineACOG Practice Bulletin Number 49, December 2003: Dystocia and augmentation of labor.
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Obstetrics and gynecology · Dec 2003
ReviewComplications associated with global endometrial ablation: the utility of the MAUDE database.
To investigate the number and type of complications associated with global endometrial ablation using public-access governmental databanks. ⋯ Use of the US Food and Drug Administration MAUDE database is helpful in identifying serious complications associated with global endometrial ablation not yet reported in the medical literature.
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Lown-Ganong-Levine syndrome is characterized by paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, a short PR interval, and normal QRS. ⋯ Lown-Ganong-Levine Syndrome is a rare complication most commonly seen in young to middle-aged women. This syndrome can be treated and controlled medically with a good outcome.
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Obstetrics and gynecology · Dec 2003
Pregnancy-related mortality due to cardiomyopathy: United States, 1991-1997.
To describe characteristics and risk factors for pregnancy-related deaths due to cardiomyopathy during 1991-1997 and to assess reasons for the increasing trend in reporting of pregnancy-related deaths due to cardiomyopathy from 1979 through 1997. ⋯ Cardiomyopathy accounts for an increasing proportion of reported pregnancy-related deaths, and the more than six-fold excess risk of death from cardiomyopathy among black women is larger than that for any other cause of death. The increased reporting of these deaths might be largely due to improved case ascertainment. Further studies are required to estimate the prevalence of cardiomyopathy and identify modifiable risk factors associated with these deaths and the reasons for this racial disparity.