Early Pregnancy Unit, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Free Hospital, London, UKKirk, EmmaReproductive Health & Childbirth Research, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Free Hospital, London, UKMemtsa, MariaInstitute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, UK...
Early pregnancy assessment unitEmotionsPregnancy lossQualitative researchGrounded theoryCOVID-19SARS-CoV-2Recurrent early pregnancy loss [rEPL] is a traumatic experience, marked by feelings such as grief and depression, and often anxiety. Despite this, the psychological consequences of rEPL are often ove...
(ie, known adrenal insufficiency or regular systemic steroid therapy within the last 3 months), end-stage kidney failure, known mesenteric ischemia, Raynaud phenomenon, systemic sclerosis or other vasospastic disease, a medical team that was not committed to full active treatment, known pregnancy, ...
The paradox of pregnancy and childbirth is that to bring forth life, the life and well-being of the woman are put at risk, jeopardising the balance of the family unit. In the writing of history, many of these facets of motherhood have been overlooked, or demeaned and trivialised. When ...
Exclusion criteria were pregnancy, presence of a tracheostomy, contraindications to noninvasive ventilation, profound neurological deficit, home ventilation prior to admission, treatment limitations, need for further surgery or sedation, or no noninvasive ventilator available. Readiness to wean was assessed ...
For example, birth weight is only a crude indicator of prenatal growth that may predominantly reflect growth in the third trimester of pregnancy,54 and evidence from the Dutch 'hunger winter' study of 1944–1945 suggests that impaired growth in the first two trimesters of pregnancy, but not ...
the Queensland floods serve as a general model of stress exposure in pregnancy, unencumbered by confounding variables, such as maternal genetic predisposition or temperament, that may self-select some women into stressful situations. We aim to determine the relative effects of several objective, subject...
Alveoli, the milk-producing units of the mammary gland, are generated during pregnancy by collaboration of different epithelial cell types. We present the first analysis of transcriptional changes within the hormone sensing population during pregnancy. H
and smoking during pregnancy (Dancause et al.2012). During historical periods of war, elevated lifetime risks for PTSD are found among children exposed to violent or traumatic events (Javidi and Yadollahie2012). Researchers have also studied how early life exposures to famine can influence adult...
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