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F O Dare

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Normal levels of glycosylated haemoglobin in pregnant Nigerian women.

Total glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1) was measured in 16 healthy non-pregnant Nigerian women and in three groups of healthy women at various times during pregnancy. There was a statistically significant decrease in HbA1 in the first trimester. The values progressively increased thereafter and by term, the values were comparable to those in non-pregnant controls. The values were identical to those reported for caucasian women at similar stages of pregnancy.

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Outcome of term breech by intended mode of delivery.

BACKGROUND: The optimal mode of delivery for the term breech fetus is undetermined. METHODS: Over a 10-year period, the outcome of 157 planned caesarean sections and 265 trials of vaginal delivery for the matured, selected, singleton breech presentation were compared. RESULTS: The perinatal mortality among the planned vaginal group was not statistically different from the planned caesarean group (3.0% vs 0.6%, p = 0.102), so was the incidence of birth asphyxia (9.4% vs 4.5%, p = 0.06), admission into neonatal intensive care unit (13.6 vs 7.6%, p = 0.063) and neonatal birth injury (3.4% vs 0.6%, p = 0.072). The overall maternal morbidity was 28% in the planned caesarean group, and 9% in the planned vaginal group, p = 0.025. CONCLUSION: Given appropriate selection criteria and management protocol, the outcome from elective caesarean section might not be better than that from planned vaginal delivery.

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The value of ultrasonic abdominal circumference in the prediction of gestational age.

The reliability of assessment of gestational age by ultrasonic fetal abdominal circumference in late pregnancy was evaluated in 204 Scottish women. The results showed that the method was very accurate, reliable and compared favourably with the data from other communities. The relationship between the target (gestational age) and the independent (abdominal circumference) variables as verified by a simple regression equation was a linear one. This method could therefore be very useful within the limit of two standard deviations of the mean in the prediction of gestational age and in the monitoring of fetal growth in late pregnancy.

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