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I will be recommending it to my patients within my busy high -
risk obstetrics practice.
Her areas of expertise include: High
Risk Obstetrics, Medical Genetics, Ultrasound, Advanced Maternal Age, Fetal Anomalies, Concurrent Maternal Medical Conditions, Hypertension in Pregnancy, Diabetes in Pregnancy, and Placental Disease.
Working in a large, urban, high -
risk obstetrics practice, ILCA membership keeps me up - to - date with the newest information and research.
The paper Liability in High
Risk Obstetrics explains the most common causes.
Although the paper concentrates on high
risk obstetrics (perinatology), the results appear to be generalizable to obstetrics as a whole.
Additionally, our expertise is extensive in high
risk obstetrics and neonatal care.
Not exact matches
«VBACs carry a less - than -1-percent increased
risk of a uterine rupture, which could cause brain damage in the baby or even death, according to the American College of
Obstetrics and Gynecologists.»
The Journal of
Obstetrics and Gynecology reports a three-fold increased
risk of uterine rupture for women who attempt to have a VBAC with a pregnancy that began fewer than six months after the end of the last one.
The influential American College of
Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) goes out of its way to repeatedly declare, contrary to all scientific evidence, that in every case, attended homebirth for low -
risk women is dangerous.
Risk factors for the development of striae gravidarum, American Journal of
Obstetrics and Gynecology; 196 (1): 62.
Guess what else still born babies are born all the time at hospitasl and babies, (often born to low
risk mothers) die all the time, often BECAUSE of
obstetrics interventions not despite them.
The «Cult of
Obstetrics» that I refer to is the mainstream assertion that hospital birth is THE ONLY safe choice for all births — low -
risk included.
For example recent research by the American College of
Obstetrics & Gynecology has shown the use of oxytocin, for induction of labour or to «speed up» labour, is an independent
risk to babies and increases NICU admission.
A lot about medicalized
obstetrics care has been historically shitty and I fully support hospitals making changes that give women more choices as long as the
risks are low.
Source IV: American Journal of
Obstetrics and Gynecology: Prolonged periods without food intake during pregnancy increase
risk for elevated maternal corticotropin - releasing hormone concentrations.
You don't see the tremendous
risk that birth still carries BECAUSE of modern
obstetrics and how safe it has become.
He is an obstetrician and gynecologist, Professor of Clinicial
Obstetrics and Gynecology at New York's most prestigious Ivy League Medical School as well as a specialist in high -
risk pregnancies (maternal - fetal medicine) with over 30 years experience in his field.
A 2009 review in
Obstetrics and Gynecology entitled «The
Risks of Not Breastfeeding for Mothers and Infants» stated that:
There is an increased
risk of severe perineal tearing during childbirth in women who had such a tear in a previous delivery, suggests a new study published in BJOG: An International Journal of
Obstetrics and Gynaecology (BJOG).
«Among women who intended to birth at home with midwives in Ontario, the
risk of stillbirth, neonatal death or serious neonatal morbidity was low and did not differ from midwifery clients who chose hospital birth,» writes Dr. Eileen Hutton, Department of
Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Midwifery Education Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, with coauthors.
According to a study in the journal «
Obstetrics and Gynecology,» the
risk of death of newborns delivered at home is twice that of babies in hospitals.
FYI for statistical / fact purposes: There are many DOs (Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine) who practice
obstetrics and gynecology as a specialty, and are fully responsible for the care of high
risk women, including many who did additional specialty training as MFM (Maternal Fetal Medicine) subspecialists.
Some include
obstetrics as part of their services, but typically, they do transfer care of high
risk patients to OBs or MFM specialists.
Just as I think it's well past time for the medical profession and hospitals to start dealing realistically and responsibly with the issues and
risks presented by common practice (and mal - practice) in
obstetrics, it's important for home birth advocates to deal reasonably and realistically with the issues and
risks presented by home births.
The leveled care system that is currently in place, in which professionals in midwifery and
obstetrics work autonomously, does not fully meet the needs of pregnant women, especially women with an accumulation of non-medical
risk factors.
Yesterday ACOG, American Congress of
Obstetrics and Gynecologist, released a new statement about low
risk pregnancies and medical intervention.
This concern might be putting new mothers at unnecessary
risk, particularly considering the fact that research from Clinical
Obstetrics and Gynecology shows the
risks associated with breastfeeding on antidepressants are relatively low.
«A number of observational studies and randomized trials, however, showed that routine episiotomy is associated with an increased incident of anal sphincter and rectal tears,» write the authors of Williams
Obstetrics (23rd edition, p. 401, their emphasis), including a four to sixfold
risk of fecal or flatus incontinence.
«For women with a family history of breast cancer, this suggests an extra benefit [of breastfeeding] is, it may reduce the
risk of breast cancer,» says Alison Stuebe, MD, an assistant professor of
obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the lead author of the study.
While I'm waiting, here's some light entertainment on the
risks of childbirth before modern
obstetrics.
A 2010 meta - analysis of the medical literature known as the Wax Paper, published in the American Journal of
Obstetrics and Gynecology, found that planned home birth has a two to three times higher
risk of neonatal mortality than hospital birth.
«Down the road, we hope to be able to treat pregnant women whose babies are at
risk for this type of neurologic damage and prevent it from happening,» says study leader Irina Burd, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of gynecology and
obstetrics and neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Integrated Research Center for Fetal Medicine.
«More often than not, the
risk of the medication is less than the
risk of the uncontrolled disorder,» said senior author Dr. Katherine Wisner, the Norman and Helen Asher Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and
Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine psychiatrist.
Today's guidance, written by a group of cervical cancer screening experts led by University of Alabama at Birmingham gynecologic oncologist Warner Huh, M.D., is being published simultaneously in the journals Gynecologic Oncology,
Obstetrics & Gynecology, and the Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease under the title «Use of Primary High
Risk Human Papillomavirus Testing for Cervical Cancer Screening: Interim Clinical Guidance.»
Women with this condition considering taking such medications should know the
risks, said study lead author Marlena Fejzo, an assistant professor of research in
obstetrics and gynecology at UCLA.
«The compelling results seen in this global study provide unequivocal evidence supporting the clinical utility of Oncotype DX to
risk - stratify patients with early stage breast cancer, and indicate that the findings are generalizable to everyday clinical practice,» said lead author Joseph A. Sparano, MD, vice-chairman of medical oncology at Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care, and professor of medicine and of
obstetrics, gynecology, women's health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
We already know that smoking causes early menopause in women of all races, but these new results show that if you are a white smoker with these specific genetic variants, your
risk of entering menopause at any given time increases dramatically,» said the study's lead author Samantha F. Butts, MD, MSCE, assistant professor of
Obstetrics and Gynecology at Penn Medicine.
«Despite the increased quality
risks and the lack of safety and efficacy data for non-FDA regulated custom - compounded bioidentical hormones, their use by menopausal women is higher than expected and appears to be continuing to grow,» said lead researcher JoAnn Pinkerton, MD, a professor of
obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville.
The results suggest that supplementing and maintaining adequate levels of vitamin D in postmenopausal women can reduce the
risk of disease,» said Eliana Aguiar Petri Nahas, a professor in FMB - UNESP's Department of Gynecology &
Obstetrics and one of the authors of the study.
Depression in both expectant mothers and fathers increases the
risk of premature birth, finds a study published in BJOG: an International Journal of
Obstetrics and Gynaecology (BJOG).
«In the future, we hope to explore whether these changes in distance were also associated with obtaining abortion later in pregnancy, which carries an increased
risk of complications and is more expensive than early abortion,» said Grossman, who is a professor of
obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at UCSF.
2016 - present Internist in charge, Clinic of Myositis, Unit of Clinical Immunology, Rheumatology, Allergy and Rare Diseases, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano 2013 - present Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Università Vita - Salute San Raffaele, Milano 2013 - present Clinical Coordinator, Autoimmunity and Gender Medicine, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano 2009 - present Group leader, Innate Immunity and Tissue Remodeling Unit, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano 2002 - present Internist in charge, High
Risk Pregnancy Unit, Department of
Obstetrics and Gynecology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano 2003 - 2013 Physician Scientist, Division of Internal Medicine, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano 1999 - 2002 Intern, Division of Internal Medicine, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele Milano 1997 - 1999 PhD student, Laboratory of Tumor Immunology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano 1995 - 1997 Postdoc, Center d'Immunologie INSERM - CNRS de Marseille - Luminy, Marseille, France 1994 - 1995 Fellow, Laboratory of Tumor Immunology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano
Women & Infants Hospital is one of the nation's largest and most prestigious research facilities in high -
risk and normal
obstetrics, gynecology, and newborn pediatrics.
Today, physicians across Penn Medicine's department of
Obstetrics & Gynecology uphold Dickens's commitment to women's health, family planning, and preventative care through programs that provide comprehensive prenatal and obstetrical care, contraceptives to low - income patients at
risk for teen pregnancy, counseling and educational services.
Helen Kay, MD, an expert in the care of high -
risk pregnancy patients, has been appointed professor of
obstetrics, section chief of maternal - fetal medicine, and chief of
obstetrics at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
The Irish Society of Interventional Radiology & The Institute of
Obstetrics and Gynaecology are hosting a Combined Meeting on the Management of High
Risk Placentas in Pregnancy at The Royal College of Physicians, Kildare Street, Dublin on the 10th of March 2017 commencing at 13.45.
The Irish Society of Interventional Radiology & The Institute of
Obstetrics and Gynaecology are hosting a Combined Meeting on the Management of High
Risk Placentas in Pregnancy at The Royal College of Physicians, Kildare... Read More
«We now have a really good handle on at least five genes that anyone would be comfortable saying are asthma
risk loci,» said Carole Ober, PhD, co-chair of the EVE Consortium, senior author of the study, and Blum - Riese Professor of human genetics and
obstetrics / gynecology at the University of Chicago.
[pagebreak] I went to Charles Lockwood, MD, the Chief of
Obstetrics and Gynecology at Yale - New Haven Hospital, to ask his opinion about my
risks.