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It is with both sadness and delight that The Editorial Board of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology announces the resignation of Dr Steven Gabbe and the appointment of Drs William Grobma...

As obstetricians we have always stressed the importance of prenatal care. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that delayed entry into prenatal care was associated with adverse outc...

In women, the definition of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) has become broad and includes several possible phenotypes. Because several features of PCOS may be in evolution in adolescents, we suggest ...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the office-based component of delayed entry into prenatal care. Study Design: Phone numbers for all obstetrics offices in a single state were obtai...

Objective: The objective of the study was to compare the intensity of inflammatory responses between intraamniotic infection with genital mycoplasmas and intraamniotic infection with other microorgani...

Objective: To examine seasonality of pregnancy hypertension rates, and whether they related to sunlight levels around conception. Study Design: Data were obtained for 424,732 singleton pregnancies con...

Objective: Antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) decrease respiratory distress syndrome in singleton gestations. Twin data are less clear. Obesity and body mass index (BMI) also affect medication distributi...

Objective: Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) is an autosomal recessive, neurodegenerative disease. Recent medical advances have improved the average life expectancy, and as such, many female patients are conte...

Objective: We sought to compare the Risk of Malignancy Index (RMI) to the Risk of Ovarian Malignancy Algorithm (ROMA) to predict epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) in women with a pelvic mass. Study Desi...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess whether endometrial polyps (EMPs) represent cancer precursors. Study Design: Age standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) of histologically verified endo...

Objective: The objective of the study was to compare 3-dimensional power Doppler (3DPD) of the uteroplacental circulation space (UPCS) in the first trimester between women who develop preeclampsia (PE...

Objective: We sought to evaluate the expression of G protein-coupled receptor 30 (GPR30) and estrogen receptor (ER)β in uterine carcinosarcoma (CS). Study Design: Immunohistochemistry was performed us...

Objective: The objective of the study was to determine whether an association exists between low paraoxonase 1 activity and dyslipidemia at midgestation and preterm birth. Study Design: We conducted a...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of a standardized evidence-based protocol for preterm labor evaluation on resource use and obstetrics outcomes. Study Design: We conduc...

Objective: The goals of the study were to estimate the pharmacokinetic parameters of standard dose betamethasone in a large obstetrics population and evaluate the effect of maternal body size and mult...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess funnel type and pregnancy duration in women with previous spontaneous preterm birth and cervical length <25 mm. Study Design: We performed a secon...

Objective: We sought to assess body mass index (BMI) effect on cesarean risk during labor. Study Design: The Consortium on Safe Labor collected electronic data from 228,668 deliveries. Women with sing...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the rates of late preterm inductions without a medical indication from birth certificate data and to compare them with rates that were obtained fr...

Objective: We sought to investigate whether maternal arterial stiffness is altered in pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and type 2 diabetes compared to normoglycemic women. Study...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the association between gestational weight gain (GWG) in a woman's first and second pregnancies. Study Design: We conducted a retrospective observat...

Objective: We sought to determine whether genetic variants associated with diabetes and obesity predict gestational weight gain. Study Design: A total of 960 participants in the Pregnancy, Infection, ...

The article below summarizes a roundtable discussion of a study published in this issue of the Journal in light of its methodology, relevance to practice, and implications for future research. Article...

Abstract: Patients using an intrauterine device (IUD) who require a loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP) for cervical dysplasia have traditionally had the IUD removed prior to the procedure....

Hailey-Hailey disease (HHD) is a rare, autosomal dominant intraepidermal blistering disorder characterized by recurrent vesicles and erosions affecting mostly the intertriginous areas. We report a cas...

I would like to thank Drs Cohen and Schifrin for their letter. They underscore the importance of using clinical acumen and ongoing assessment of the laboring woman as opposed to arbitrary thresholds. ...

We appreciate Dr Facchinetti's comment on our recent publication, “The effect of treatment with 17-alpha-hydroxyprogesterone caproate on changes in cervical length over time.” In our retrospective ana...

We have read with a great interest the letter by Fagotti et al that referred to our article “Comparison of peritoneal scoring methods in predicting resectability and prognosis in advanced ovarian canc...