Early Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Gestational Diabetes: The Predictive Role of Routine Biomarkers and Nutrigenetic Variants by Marica Franzago, Federica Fraticelli, Marta Di Nicola, Francesco Bianco, Daniela Marchetti, Claudio Celentano, Marco Liberati, Raffaele De Caterina, Liborio Stuppia, Ester Vitacolonna

“…Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) can be considered a silent risk for out-of-pregnancy diabetes mellitus (DM) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) later in life. …”
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Application of a methodological framework for the development and multicenter validation of reliable artificial intelligence in embryo evaluation by D. Gilboa, Akhil Garg, M. Shapiro, M. Meseguer, Y. Amar, N. Lustgarten, N. Desai, T. Shavit, V. Silva, A. Papatheodorou, A. Chatziparasidou, S. Angras, J. H. Lee, L. Thiel, C. L. Curchoe, Y. Tauber, D. S. Seidman

“…Methods This multicenter analysis utilizes time-lapse images, pregnancy outcomes, and morphologic annotations from embryos collected at 10 IVF clinics across 9 countries between 2018 and 2022. …”
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The treatment of anoestrus and suboestrus in dairy cattle and heifer using a progesterone releasing intravaginal device (prid) by Sait Şendağ, H. Ahmet Çelik, İbrahim Aydın, Mehmet Çolak, Seyit Ümütlü

“…The onset of the oestrus and pregnancy rates in all animals that PRID application were 95.0 % and 73 6 % respectively. …”
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A Case of Sirenomelia Associated with Hypoplastic Left Heart with a Healthy Co-Twin: A Rare Entity by Houda Nasser Al Yaqoubi, Muna Mubarak Al Badi, Farida Mohsin Ambu Saidi, Nasser Shaikhan Taaeeb Al Shafouri

“…Around 15% of sirenomelia cases are associated with twin pregnancy, most often in monozygotic cases with an incidence of 7%. …”
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Epithelial mesenchymal transition in human menstruation and implantation by Hiroshi Uchida

“…Localized and transient destruction and regeneration of endometrial tissue are also essential for pregnancy. It is possible to attribute many causes of failure in infertility treatment to the implantation stage. …”
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Massive vulval edema with severe preeclampsia. Case report by Nelson Pérez Rumbaut, José Luis Durán Páez, José Luis Gómez Miranda.

“…Massive vulval edema with severe preeclampsia is presented as one of the consequences that may appear on patients with hypertension disorders during pregnancy, therefore the attention in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Service must be systematical and permanent. …”
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Social Determinants and Access to Induced Abortion in Burkina Faso: From Two Case Studies by Ramatou Ouédraogo, Johanne Sundby

“…The legal restriction and social stigma make abortions most often clandestine and risky for women who decide to terminate a pregnancy. However, the exposure to the risk of unsafe induced abortion is not the same for all the women who faced unwanted pregnancy and decide to have an abortion. …”
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Survival from Maternal Cardiac Arrest Complicating Coronavirus Disease 2019 by Andrea D. Shields, John J. Byrne, Meghan Munisteri, Michael Wood

“…Little is known about the cardiac complications, specifically cardiac arrest, of COVID-19 during pregnancy and postpartum periods. Case. We present a case of survival and full neurological recovery after maternal cardiac arrest associated with COVID-19 in a postpartum female. …”
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Clumsiness and Disturbed Cerebellar Development: Insights From Animal Experiments by Albert Gramsbergen

“…The cerebellar cortex in mammals develops late in neuro-ontogeny and an extrapolation from experimental results indicates that in the human the proliferation of the granule cells and the development of circuitry in the cerebellar cortex starts only in the last trimester of pregnancy and lasts until beyond the first birthday. …”
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Idiopathic Superior Mesenteric Vein Thrombosis Resulting in Small Bowel Ischemia in a Pregnant Woman by Hao Lin, Chih-Che Lin, Wan-Ting Huang

“…Small bowel ischemia due to superior mesenteric vein thrombosis (MVT) is rare during pregnancy. However, additional precipitating factors should usually be identified. …”
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Severe Renal Hemorrhage in a Pregnant Woman Complicated with Antiphospholipid Syndrome: A Case Report by Shohei Kawaguchi, Kouji Izumi, Takahiro Nohara, Tohru Miyagi, Hiroyuki Konaka, Atsushi Mizokami, Eitetsu Koh, Mikio Namiki

“…After treatment, continuance of pregnancy was possible and vaginal delivery was performed safely. …”
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Magnitude and Determinants of Antenatal Care Utilization in Kandahar City, Afghanistan by Muhammad Haroon Stanikzai, Mohammad Hashim Wafa, Abdul Wahed Wasiq, Hadia Sayam

“…Appropriate and timely care during pregnancy can improve maternal and child health. Objectives. …”
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Seroprevalence, Associated Factors, and Fetomaternal Outcome in Pregnant Women That Tested Positive to Hepatitis E Antibodies in Nigeria by Valentine Chimezie Okwara, Ikechukwu Innocent Mbachu, Victor Ikechukwu Ndububa, Henry Chima Okpara, Chioma Pauline Mbachu

“…To evaluate the prevalence, associated factors, and pregnancy outcome in women that tested positive for hepatitis E virus (HEV) antibodies in pregnancy. …”
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Effects of Intrauterine Human Chorionic Gonadotropin on Endometrial Receptivity in Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection Cycle by Omaima Al Dosary, Huda Hussaini, Manal Al-Obaidi

“…These effects will improve the pregnancy rate in patients undergoing the ICSI cycle.…”
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Maternal exposure to fullerenols impairs placental development in mice by inhibiting estriol synthesis and reducing ERα by Qing He, Jiali Yuan, Huihui Yang, Ting Du, Siqing Hu, Ling Ding, Wei Yan, Panpan Chen, Jing Li, Zhenyao Huang

“…However, concerns about their potential embryotoxicity remain. Using a pregnancy mouse model and metabolomics analysis, our findings reveal that fullerenols exposure during pregnancy not only significantly reduced mice placental weight and villi thickness, but also altered the classes and concentrations of metabolites in the mouse placenta. …”
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Role of Platelet-rich Plasma in Unexplained Recurrent Implantation Failure – A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomised Control Trials by Harpreet Kaur, Meenakshi Meenu, Shivam Pandey, Anil Chauhan, Mishu Mangla

“…Similarly, the quality of evidence was low for the clinical pregnancy rate, so we are uncertain if the administration of PRP had any significant effect on the clinical pregnancy rate (OR: 3.20, 95% CI: 2.38–4.28, I2 = 0%). …”
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Smoking prevalence among adults in households with children: parental survey by O.O. Starets, D.A. Kovalenko

“…The prevalence of smoking in women before pregnancy was more than 20%, and during pregnancy – 10%. …”
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Reassessing Nutritional Supplementation Program: The Impact of Maternal Vitamin B12 Levels on Feto-Maternal Outcomes by Pranjali Dhume, Reshu Rawal, Ashish Vadhera, Ankur Shah, Madhusudan Dey, Sunil Chawla, Suyash Goel, Simran Gilhotra, Ankita Sharma

“…While folate deficiency has been acknowledged in not only the prevention of neural tube defects and other adverse pregnancy outcomes, the effects of low vit B12 status have not been well defined. …”
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Determinants of Neural Tube Defects among Newborns in Amhara Region, Ethiopia: A Case-Control Study by Abay Woday Tadesse, Ayesheshim Muluneh Kassa, Setognal Birara Aychiluhm

“…However, being supplemented with folic acid or multivitamins before or during pregnancy (AOR=0.37: 95% CI 0.21, 0.65), never having taken any substance during pregnancy (AOR=0.42: 95% CI 0.21, 0.88), and being free from medical illnesses during pregnancy (AOR=0.27: 95% CI 0.11, 0.69) were the protective factors of NTDs. …”
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Adolescents: Contraceptive Knowledge and Use, a Brazilian Study by Divanise S. Correia, Ana C. P. Pontes, Jairo C. Cavalcante, E. Sócrates T. Egito, Eulália M.C. Maia

“…The low use of chemical methods of contraception brings the risk of pregnancy. Since abortion and aborting drugs were incorrectly cited as contraceptive methods, this implies a nonpreventive attitude towards pregnancy.…”
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