5 Articles Suggested by Christopher Robinson

Christopher Robinson, Associate Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of South Carolina and Executive Chair of the Foundation for the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, shared some top articles on LinkedIn:

1. Expert Review in Cesarean

“AJOG Expert Review in Cesarean: The Pelosi cesarean delivery technique – Dr. Pfannenstiel’s incision

1. Hermann Johannes Pfannenstiel (1862–1909). German gynecologist, born in Berlin.
2. Excerpt from Pfannenstiel‘s paper on the advantages of his suprasymphysary transverse fascia incision.”

Title: The Pelosi cesarean delivery technique

Authors: Marco A. Pelosi, II, Marco A. Pelosi, III

You can read the Full Article in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

2. Giants in Obstetrics and Gynecology

“AJOG Giants in Obstetrics and Gynecology: Hilary O.D. Critchley: a physician-scientist who transformed the understanding of menstruation – The PALM-COEIN classification for abnormal uterine bleeding in the reproductive years.”

Title: Giants in Obstetrics and Gynecology: Hilary O.D. Critchley: a physician-scientist who transformed the understanding of menstruation

Author: Roberto Romero

You can read the Full Article in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

3. AJOG Expert Review

“AJOG Expert Review: In-labor cesarean delivery and spontaneous preterm birth: addressing the clinical challenge – Cesarean scar defect in the cervix, corresponding cerclage height and level of the sphincter: further evaluation is needed to verify whether either approach has a benefit.”

Title: In-labor cesarean delivery and spontaneous preterm birth: addressing the clinical challenge

Authors: Hannah Rosen O’Sullivan, Laura van der Krogt, Andrew Shennan

You can read the Full Article in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

4. Antenatal Corticosteroids in Preterm Pregnancies Complicated by Diabetes

“Antenatal Corticosteroids in Preterm Pregnancies Complicated by Diabetes: A Review and Clinical Commentary.

Type II pneumocytes synthesize and secrete pulmonary surfactant, a lipid–protein complex that reduces alveolar surface tension and prevents atelectasis during expiration. Cortisol promotes type II pneumocyte differentiation and surfactant production, whereas fetal hyperinsulinemia – common in diabetic pregnancies – antagonizes these pathways, contributing to delayed biochemical lung maturation.”

Title: Antenatal Corticosteroids in Preterm Pregnancies Complicated by Diabetes: A Review and Clinical Commentary

Authors: Arielle Higgs, Kasey Meeks, E. Albert Reece, Karl E. Seif

You can read the Full Article in the American Journal of Perinatology.

5. Time-to-delivery interval by the sFlt-1/PlGF ratio results

“The accuracy of the soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase 1/placental growth factor ratio assay in predicting time to delivery in patients with suspected preeclampsia – Time-to-delivery interval by the sFlt-1/PlGF ratio results.

This figure includes Kaplan-Meier curves showing the cumulative proportion of women who gave birth by time from testing, stratified by the sFlt-1/PlGF ratio (low-risk ratio [black line], moderate-risk ratio [blue line], and high-risk ratio [red line]).

Hazard ratios (with 95% confidence intervals) were estimated using a Cox regression model adjusted for nulliparity, gestational age at testing, indication for testing, chronic hypertension, and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (gestational hypertension, preeclampsia).”

Title: The accuracy of the soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase 1/placental growth factor ratio assay in predicting time to delivery in patients with suspected preeclampsia

Authors: Siobhan Wilson, Elaine Carson, Lei Fu, Paul M. Yip, Michelle A. Hladunewich, John Kingdom, Nir Melamed

You can read the Full Article in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

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