Aplastic Anemia Treated with Eltrombopag during Pregnancy by Yuri Suminaga, Yoshitsugu Chigusa, Tadakazu Kondo, Haruko Okamoto, Yosuke Kawamura, Mana Taki, Masaki Mandai, Haruta Mogami

“…Throughout pregnancy, the woman’s pancytopenia did not progress, and she delivered a 2336 g baby vaginally at 38 weeks of gestation. Her postpartum outcome was uneventful, and the neonate did not develop thrombocytosis. …”
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Successful Management in an Infant Patient of PHACE Syndrome with a Complicated Aortic Arch Anomaly by Shun Suzuki, Mitsuru Seki, Koichi Kataoka, Reina Koga, Tomoyuki Sato, Masaaki Kawada, Takanori Yamagata

“…She was born at 36 weeks of gestation (birth weight, 2,150 g) and the diagnosis was confirmed by three-dimensional computed tomography. …”
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Traumatic Uterine Rupture in Second Trimester: Two Departments, Two Patients, Two Survivors by Kaggwa H, Deogratious E, Ndiwalana BR, Luweesi H, Kaduyu P

“…Here, we present a case of a 33-year-old female, Gravida 3 Para 2+0, with two previous uterine scars who sustained a traumatic uterine rupture at gestation of 18 weeks due to blunt abdominal trauma after a bathroom fall. …”
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Vitamin D Status and Associated Factors in Neonates in a Resource Constrained Setting by Khadija Murtaza Bhimji, Helga Naburi, Said Aboud, Karim Manji

“…Chi square test was used to determine association between vitamin D and various associated factors such as sex, infant birth weight, gestation age, parity of the mother, maternal age, and HIV status of the mother. …”
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Placental Chorangiosis: Increased Risk for Cesarean Section by Shariska S. Petersen, Raminder Khangura, Dmitry Davydov, Ziying Zhang, Roopina Sangha

“…We describe a patient with Class C diabetes who presented for nonstress testing at 36 weeks and 4 days of gestation with nonreassuring fetal heart tones (NRFHT) and oligohydramnios. …”
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The Role of Inflammation in the Pathogenesis of Preeclampsia by Michał Michalczyk, Aleksander Celewicz, Marta Celewicz, Paula Woźniakowska-Gondek, Rafał Rzepka

“…It is defined as arterial hypertension in women after 20 weeks of gestation which cooccurs with proteinuria (300 mg/d) or as arterial hypertension which is accompanied by one of the following: renal failure, liver dysfunction, hematological or neurological abnormalities, intrauterine growth restriction, or uteroplacental insufficiency. …”
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Amino acid stable carbon isotopes in nail keratin illuminate breastfeeding and weaning practices of mother – infant dyads by Hana Salahuddin, Andrea L. Waters-Rist, Fred J. Longstaffe

“…This study evaluates the efficacy of stable carbon isotope analysis of amino acids in early life diet reconstruction by analyzing keratin from fingernail samples of three mother-infant pairs during late gestation and early postpartum periods. Our results show that stable carbon isotope ratios (δ 13C) of glycine, and to a lesser extent glutamate, effectively trace the onset of exclusive breastfeeding and the end of weaning in infants. …”
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A Diagnosis of Maternal 22q Duplication and Mosaic Deletion following Prenatal Cell-Free DNA Screening by Melissa A. Hicks, Emilie Lalonde, Jessica Zoladz, Bernard Gonik, Salah Ebrahim

“…The patient was referred to maternal-fetal medicine (MFM) at 14 weeks’ gestation secondary to an SNP-based cfDNA result of a suspected maternal 22q11.2 deletion and a fetal risk of 1 in 2 for 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. …”
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Marked Rebound of Platelet Count in the Early Postpartum Period in a Patient with Essential Thrombocythemia by Yoshinori Hashimoto, Rina Hosoda, Hiromi Omura, Takayuki Tanaka

“…She underwent emergency cesarean delivery at 37 weeks of gestation. Although her platelet count was 1000 × 109/L immediately after delivery, it markedly increased to 3271 × 109/L approximately 2 weeks later. …”
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Ultrasonographic examination of the maturational effect of maternal vitamin D use on fetal clavicle bone development by Fatma Ozdemir, Banu Acmaz, Fatma Latifoglu, Sabahattin Muhtaroglu, Nefise Tanrıdan Okcu, Gokhan Acmaz, Iptisam Ipek Muderris

“…Ultrasonographic imaging was performed on the fetal clavicle at 37–40 weeks of gestation. The fetal clavicle images were compared with adult male clavicle images. …”
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Open surgical repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm during the second trimester of pregnancy by Ndeye Fatou Sow, MD, Abdoul Ahad Mbengue, MD, Jean Michel Davaine, MD, PhD, Morgane Lemierre, MD, Papa Adama Dieng, MD

“…A 37-year-old obese woman, trigravida and secundiparous, at 17 weeks of gestation presented with acute abdominal pain. Doppler ultrasound examination showed an infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm measuring 61 mm in diameter and a computed tomography angiography outlined a fissured infrarenal aneurysm measuring 85 mm in diameter. …”
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Severe Vitamin B12 Deficiency in Pregnancy Mimicking HELLP Syndrome by Shravya Govindappagari, Michelle Nguyen, Megha Gupta, Ramy M. Hanna, Richard M. Burwick

“…We report a patient diagnosed with severe vitamin B12 deficiency, following termination of pregnancy for suspected preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome at 21 weeks’ gestation. When hemolysis and thrombocytopenia persisted after delivery, testing was performed to rule out other etiologies of thrombotic microangiopathy, including atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, and vitamin B12 deficiency. …”
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A Case of Ultrasound Diagnosis of Fetal Hiatal Hernia in Late Third Trimester of Pregnancy by Stefania Di Francesco, Mariano Matteo Lanna, Marcello Napolitano, Luciano Maestri, Stefano Faiola, Mariangela Rustico, Enrico Ferrazzi

“…In this paper we describe a case of congenital hiatal hernia that was suspected at ultrasound at 39 weeks’ gestation, on the basis of a cystic mass in the posterior mediastinum, juxtaposed to the vertebral body. …”
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The First Case Report in Italy of Di George Syndrome Detected by Noninvasive Prenatal Testing by Giuseppina Rapacchia, Cristina Lapucci, Maria Carla Pittalis, Aly Youssef, Antonio Farina

“…We report here the first case of Di George syndrome detected by NIPT in Italy; blood was drawn at 12 weeks’ gestation. The patient had an amniocentesis to confirm the diagnosis by MLPA (multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification) and an ultrasound aimed to detect the features associated with the syndrome. …”
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Bladder Horn Appearance on Ultrasonographic Examination Prior to Cesarean Section: Does it Predict High Cranial Attachment of the Bladder? by İnci Kahyaoğlu, Fulya Kayıkçıoğlu, Serhan Kahyaoğlu, Sezin Ertürk Akasakal, Leyla Mollamahmutoğlu

“…Two hundred pregnant women, 66 with and 134 without ultrasonographic appearance of bladder horn with at least one previous CS delivery beyond 37 weeks of gestation were enrolled in the study. RESULTS: The rate of high cranial attachment of the bladder in patients with or without bladder horn appearance is 33.3% and 26.9%, respectively (p=0.51). …”
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Behçet’s disease in pregnancy: a case report and literature review by Xiangyue Li, Xuemei Huang, Xiaolan Yu

“…Case presentation A 20-year-old woman, gravida 2, para 1, presented to our inpatient department with recurrent oral and genital ulcers at 28 weeks and 3 days of gestation. Given the complexity of the patient’s condition, we initiated the first multidisciplinary consultation to establish appropriate treatment regimens. …”
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Neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis complicated by glutaric acidemia type II: a case report by Yuli Zhang, Yuli Zhang, Longfei Chen, Miao Duan

“…This report describes a case involving a male preterm infant born at a gestation of 30 + 1 weeks who developed NEC complicated by GAII. …”
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Uterine Rupture after Laparoscopic Myomectomy in Two Cases: Real Complication or Malpractice? by Antonella Vimercati, Vittoria Del Vecchio, Annarosa Chincoli, Antonio Malvasi, Ettore Cicinelli

“…The two cases of uterine rupture in pregnancy following laparoscopic myomectomy occurred at 36 and 18 weeks of gestation, respectively. Both women had undergone laparoscopic multiple myomectomy and uterine rupture occurred along the isthmic myomectomy scars, despite the fact that compliance with all the recent technical surgical recommendations for the previous laparoscopic multiple myomectomy had been fully observed. …”
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Lymph Drainage in Pregnant Women by Sylvia Cataldo Oportus, Lilian de Paiva Rodrigues, José Maria Pereira de Godoy, Maria de Fátima Guerreiro Godoy

“…The patients, in the 5th to 8th months of gestation, were submitted to one hour of manual lymph drainage of the legs. …”
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Unilateral Atraumatic Expulsion of an Ectopic Pregnancy in a Case of Bilateral Ectopic Pregnancy by Victoria Sampson, Oluremi Mogekwu, Ammar Ahmed, Farida Bano

“…A 26-year-old female presented to our early pregnancy unit with pain and vaginal bleeding at 5-week gestation after IVF. USS was inconclusive and her b-hCG levels rose with worsening pain; therefore, a decision was made for diagnostic laparoscopy. …”
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