For decades, women presenting with threatened preterm labor have often received aggressive treatments-tocolytics and ...

Tommy's Deputy Director of the National Centre for Preterm Birth Research talks to M&B about how the cervical stitch can help ...

We've known for years that a short cervix is a risk factor for a preterm delivery. Now we have an easy way to measure and correct this issue. My patient was 22 years old and midway through her first ...

May 28, 2010 (San Francisco, California) — A new disposable measuring probe called CerviLenz, designed to measure vaginal cervical length, is as effective as fetal fibronectin in assessing risk for ...

During pregnancy, what's the significance of cervical length? Cervical length refers to the length of the lower end of the uterus. During pregnancy, the length of the cervix might shorten too soon, ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Doctors who use age, weight and other factors to predict if a pregnant woman will need a Caesarean section to deliver her baby have a new gauge: the length of the cervix, ...

(HealthDay)—Patients with a short cervix who deliver prematurely have a significantly longer interval from antenatal corticosteroid administration, and fewer receive antenatal corticosteroids within ...

To determine whether further cervical length shortening by transvaginal ultrasonography in asymptomatic high-risk women with a short cervical length adds additional predictive value for spontaneous ...

Post-cerclage cervical length (CL) was a significant predictor of spontaneous preterm birth (sPTB; < 34 weeks of gestation) in women who underwent cervical cerclage, predominantly outperforming ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pregnant women with polycystic ovary syndrome randomly assigned metformin had no difference in cervix length ...