The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 8/98
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The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Table of Contents for August 1998, Volume 179, Number 2
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Neonatal mortality for very low birth weight deliveries in South Carolina by
level of hospital perinatal service
M. Kathryn Menard, MD, MPH, Qiduan Liu, PhD, Elin A. Holgren, CNM, MPH,
William
M. Sappenfield, MD, MPH
Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia
Neonatal mortality among very-low-birth-weight infants was significantly
lower
for deliveries at level III hospitals in South Carolina than at level I or
level
II hospitals or at level II hospitals with neonatologists.
Atypical glandular cells of undetermined significance: A five-year
retrospective
histopathologic study
Dan S. Veljovich, MD, Mark H. Stoler, MD, Willie A. Andersen, MD, Jamie L.
Covell, BS, CT(ASCP), Laurel W. Rice, MD
Charlottesville, Virginia
Papanicolaou smears with atypical glandular cells of undetermined
significance
were correlated with significant findings in 45% of patients (32% with
preinvasive or invasive lesions and 13% with benign lesions); prompt and
aggressive workup is recommended.
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CLINICAL OPINION
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Death of the Papanicolaou smear? A tale of three reasons
Richard C. Boronow, MD
Jackson, Mississippi
The Papanicolaou smear, arguably the most cost-effective cancer screening
test
ever developed, is under siege, receiving intense legal, media, and even
public
and commercial challenge.
Understanding miscarriage or insensitive abortion: Time for more defined
terminology?
David J. R. Hutchon, MB
Darlington, United Kingdom
The term abortion for early pregnancy loss can cause offense; the word
miscarriage in place of abortion is recommended for all English language
journals.
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GENERAL OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY
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Gynecology
Can the number of cigarettes smoked predict high-grade cervical
intraepithelial
neoplasia among women with mildly abnormal cervical smears?
Sean Francis Daly, MD, Magella Doyle, MB, James English, MD, Michael
Turner, MD,
James Clinch, MD, Walter Prendiville, MD
Dublin, Ireland
This study demonstrates a dose-dependent association between the number of
cigarettes smoked and the risk of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade
2 or
3.
Risk factors for familial and sporadic ovarian cancer among French
Canadians: A
case-control study
Beatrice Godard, PhD, William D. Foulkes, MB, PhD, Diane Provencher, MD,
Jean-Sebastien Brunet, MSc, Patricia N. Tonin, PhD, Anne-Marie Mes-Masson,
PhD,
Steven A. Narod, MD, Parviz Ghadirian, PhD
Montreal, Quebec, and Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Both familial and sporadic ovarian cancer share the same risk factors in a
French Canadian population.
The cost-effectiveness of treating women with a cervical vaginal smear
diagnosis
of atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance
Stephen S. Raab, MD, Ann L. Steiner, MD, John Hornberger, MD, MS
Iowa City, Iowa, and Stanford, California
For a woman with a diagnosis of atypical squamous cells of undetermined
significance, simply repeating the smear is the most cost-effective follow-up
strategy.
Qualification of atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance in an
independent laboratory: Is it useful or significant?
Mary F. Lachman, MD, Christina Cavallo-Calvanese, BS
Stratford, Connecticut
This study from a high-volume independent laboratory supports the
usefulness of
atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance as a diagnostic category
for cervicovaginal cytologic diagnosis and subsequent patient management.
Elevated high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and dietary fat intake in women
with cyclic mastopathy
Pamela J. Goodwin, MD, MSc, Andrea Miller, BSc, MSc, MD, M. Elisabeth Del
Giudice, BSc, MSc, William Singer, MD, Philip Connelly, MD, J.W. Knox
Ritchie,
MD
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Elevations in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and dietary fat intake are
associated with severe cyclic mastopathy, suggesting that nutritional factors
contribute to the pathophysiologic characteristics of this syndrome.
The effect of monocyte chemotactic protein 1 in intraperitoneal adhesion
formation in a mouse model
Hulusi B. Zeyneloglu, MD, Emre Seli, MD, Levent M. Senturk, MD, Linda S.
Gutierrez, MD, David L. Olive, MD, Aydin Arici, MD
New Haven, Connecticut
Monocyte chemotactic protein 1 is expressed in a time-dependent manner in
intraperitoneal adhesions in mice, and anti-monocyte chemotactic protein 1
neutralizing antibody decreases intraperitoneal adhesion formation.
Calcium carbonate and the premenstrual syndrome: Effects on premenstrual and
menstrual symptoms
Susan Thys-Jacobs, MD, Paul Starkey, MD, Debra Bernstein, PhD, Jason Tian,
PhD,
the Premenstrual Syndrome Study Group
New York, New York, and Parsippany, New Jersey
Calcium supplementation is an effective treatment in premenstrual syndrome,
resulting in a major reduction in overall luteal phase symptoms.
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Antepartum cervical ripening: Applying prostaglandin E2 gel in conjunction
with
scheduled nonstress tests in postdate pregnancies
Jean M. Lien, MD, Mark A. Morgan, MD, Thomas J. Garite, MD, Kathleen A.
Kennedy,
MD, Deborah A. Sassoon, MD, Roger K. Freeman, MD
Long Beach, Orange, and Anaheim, California, and Portland, Oregon
Cervical ripening with prostaglandin E2 gel in conjunction with scheduled
antepartum testing for postdate pregnancies may be efficacious only for
selected
patients.
Methadone maintenance in pregnancy: A reappraisal
Haywood L. Brown, MD, Kathy A. Britton, RN, Danielle Mahaffey, MD, Edward
Brizendine, MS, A. Kinney Hiett, MD, Mureena A. Turnquest, MD
Indianapolis, Indiana
Women receiving methadone maintenance are at high risk for illicit drug use
and
neonatal complications, including drug withdrawal.
Circulating vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 in pre-eclampsia, gestational
hypertension, and normal pregnancy: Evidence of selective dysregulation of
vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 homeostasis in pre-eclampsia
John R. Higgins, MD, Aikaterina Papayianni, MD, Hugh R. Brady, MD, Michael
R. N.
Darling, MD, Joseph J. Walshe, MD
Dublin, Ireland, and Boston, Massachusetts
Induction of vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 expression in pre-eclampsia
may
contribute to leukocyte-mediated tissue injury or may reflect perturbation of
previously unrecognized functions of this molecule in pregnancy.
Ethanol-induced expression of cytokines in a first-trimester trophoblast cell
line
David M. Svinarich, PhD, John A. DiCerbo, BA, Fadi M. Zaher, MS, Frank D.
Yelian, MD, PhD, Bernard Gonik, MD
Detroit, Michigan
Expression of cytokines by first-trimester trophoblasts after ethanol
exposure
may provide a mechanism for altered fetal immune development in children with
fetal alcohol syndrome.
Shoulder dystocia and associated risk factors with macrosomic infants born in
California
Thomas S. Nesbitt, MD, MPH, William M. Gilbert, MD, Beate Herrchen, PhD
Davis and Berkeley, California
Birth weight, assisted delivery, and diabetes were found to be independent
and
additive risk factors in 6238 cases (3% of births) of shoulder dystocia in
infants weighing >3500 g.
In pregnancies with gestational diabetes mellitus and intensive therapy,
perinatal outcome is worse in small-for-gestational-age newborns
Apolonia Garcia-Patterson, MD, Rosa Corcoy, PhD, Montserrat Balsells, MD,
Orenci
Altirriba, PhD, Juan M. Adelantado, PhD, Lluis Cabero, PhD, Alberto de Leiva,
PhD
Barcelona, Spain
Among women with gestational diabetes mellitus receiving intensive therapy,
perinatal outcome is worse for small-for-gestational-age neonates than for
appropriate- or large-for-gestational-age neonates.
The acute pressure natriuresis response blunted and the blood pressure
response
reset in the normal pregnant rat
Shyama Masilamani, PhD, Gerald R. Hobbs, PhD, Chris Baylis, PhD
Morgantown, West Virginia
A blunted acute pressure natriuresis relationship and peripheral vasodilation
are seen in late-pregnant rats, which permit cumulative sodium retention and
plasma volume expansion without a rise in blood pressure.
Parathyroid hormone-related peptide (1 to 34) inhibits in vitro
oxytocin-stimulated activity of pregnant baboon myometrium
A. E. Pitera, G.C. S. Smith, MD, R. A. Wentworth, PhD, P. W. Nathanielsz, MD,
PhD, ScD
Ithaca, New York
Nanomolar concentrations of parathyroid hormone-related protein inhibited in
vitro oxytocin-stimulated activity in myometrium obtained before labor from
all
regions of the baboon uterus in the last third of pregnancy.
Uterine relaxation responses to calcitonin gene-related peptide and
calcitonin
gene-related peptide receptors decreased during labor in rats
Yuan-Lin Dong, MD, PhD, Pandu R. R. Gangula, PhD, Li Fang, MD, Sinil J.
Wimalawansa, MD, PhD, Chandrasekhar Yallampalli, DVM, PhD
Galveston, Texas
Uterine relaxation responses to calcitonin gene-related peptide and its
receptors in the rat uterus are decreased during labor.
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Fetus-Placenta-Newborn
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Potentially asphyxiating conditions and spastic cerebral palsy in infants of
normal birth weight
Karin B. Nelson, MD, Judith K. Grether, PhD
Bethesda, Maryland, and Emeryville, California
Potentially asphyxiating conditions, chiefly tight nuchal cord, were
associated
with an appreciable proportion of otherwise unexplained spastic
quadriplegia but
not with diplegia or hemiplegia.
An alternative for women initially declining genetic amniocentesis:
Individual
Down syndrome odds on the basis of maternal age and multiple ultrasonographic
markers
Ray Bahado-Singh, MD, Ozgur Deren, MD, Utku Oz, MD, Ann Tan, MD, David
Hunter,
MD, Joshua Copel, MD, Maurice J. Mahoney, MD, JD
New Haven, Connecticut
By combining maternal age and multiple ultrasonographic parameters, a high
Down
syndrome screening efficiency was obtained.
Hemostasis in the uteroplacental and peripheral circulations in
normotensive and
pre-eclamptic pregnancies
John R. Higgins, MD, Joseph J. Walshe, MD, Michael R. N. Darling, MD, Lucy
Norris, PhD, John Bonnar, MD
Dublin, Ireland
Preeclampsia is associated with an abnormal pattern of hemostasis in the
uteroplacental circulation.
Prevention of herpes simplex virus infection and latency by
prophylactictreatment with acyclovir in a weanling mouse model
Anthony T. Dobson, MD, PhD, Bertis B. Little, PhD, L. Laurie Scott, MD
Dallas, Texas
Prophylactic acyclovir prevented acute and reduced the establishment of
latent
herpes simplex virus infection in a weanling mouse model.
Urocortin in pregnancy
B. P. Glynn, PhD, A. Wolton, B. RodrĄguez-Li¤ares, PhD, S. Phaneuf, PhD, E.
A.
Linton, PhD
Oxford, United Kingdom
Urocortin was not translated to any great extent in pregnancy tissues
investigated, nor was it detected in the circulation of pregnant women.
Doppler flow velocity waveforms of the umbilical arteries correlate with
intravillous blood volume
Thomas P. Hitschold, MD, PhD
Wiesbaden, Germany
Umbilical artery blood flow velocity waveforms depend on the volume of the
fetoplacental vessel tree.
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AJOG REVIEWS
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Cervical screening adjuncts: Recent advances
Mark Spitzer, MD
Jamaica, New York
Recent advances in the technology used in cervical cancer screening have the
potential to significantly increase the detection of cervical cancer and its
precursors.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITORS
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Recurrent candidiasis and "malcarbohydrate metabolism"
Howard L. Smith, MD
Roswell, New Mexico
Reply
Jack D. Sobel, MD
Detroit, Michigan
Fetal body composition and ultrasonographic estimates of fetal weight
Ira Bernstein, MD, Patrick M. Catalano, MD
Burlington, Vermont, and Cleveland, Ohio
Risk of magnesium for respiratory failure in pregnancy
Michael P. Carson, MD, Rshmi Khurana, MD
New Brunswick, New Jersey, and Providence, Rhode Island
Nonobstetric emergencies in pregnancy
Russel D. Jelsema, MD
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Databases and the statistical usage of (perinatal) results-Reply
Roel Nijland, MD, PhD, Paul P. van den Berg, MD, PhD, Henk W. Jongsma, PhD
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Reply
Johannes Egberts, PhD
Leiden, The Netherlands
Some concerns about the new research guidelines for interpretation of
electronic
fetal heart rate monitoring
Joao Bernardes, MD, PhD, Altamiro Costa Pereira, MD, PhD
Porto, Portugal
Reply
Julian T. Parer, MD, PhD
San Francisco, California
Erb's palsy without shoulder dystocia
William N. Spellacy, MD
Tampa, Florida
Reply
Robert Gherman, MD
Portsmouth, Virginia
Clinical outcome of mild fetal ventriculomegaly
Steven L. Bloom, MD, Deborah D. Bloom, PhD
Dallas, Texas
Reply
Patrizia Vergani, MD, Anna Locatelli, MD, Alessandro Ghidini, MD
Monza, Italy, and Washington, D.C.
Are there seasonal effects on obstetric circadian rhythms?
Michael Cooperstock, MD, MPH
Columbia, Missouri
Reply
Angelo Cagnacci, MD, Annibale Volpe, MD
Modena, Italy
Maternal weight, body mass index, and cesarean delivery
Barbara Luke, ScD, MPH, RD
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Cesarean section
Lee Ann Roberts, MD
Raleigh, North Carolina
Reply
Brian C. Brost, MD, Roger B. Newman, MD
Keesler AFB, Mississippi
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