Open Directory - Health: Reproductive Health: Pregnancy and Birth: Complications
See also: - UK support site containing information, links and research news on this condition. - Covering causes, symptoms and treatments. - offering a list of common pregnancy complaints and solutions. - Support and information for those who receive poor prenatal diagnoses, including; anencephaly, complex heart defects, trisomy syndromes and other birth defects. - Aims to provide support and information pertaining to fetal distresses and syndromes. Topics include Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS), Acardiac Twinning (TRAP sequence), Amniotic Band Syndrome (ABS), Intrauterine Growth Restriction (IUGR), and Selective Intrauternine Growth Restriction (SIUGR). - Offers fetal surgery and other treatment for fetal defects at Women and Infants' Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. Includes information for patients, students and medical professionals. - Message board for women who are experiencing complications. - Medical report on two consecutive pregnancies with this diagnoses, as well as intrauterine growth retardation and Dysmorphic Syndrome. - Information about ICP and its risks and complications, includes a definition, symptoms and treatment. - A campaign to raise awareness of childbed fever (puerperal sepsis), a potentially fatal uterine infection after childbirth. Includes details of the condition and personal accounts. - Discusses the benefits and risks of flu shots during pregnancy. - Article discussing treatment, possible complications, and monitoring techniques. - This site explores the risks undertaken when choosing an epidural for pain management. - Explanation of a rare mass or growth that may form inside the uterus at the beginning of a pregnancy. - Information about various complications of pregnancy. - General Practice Notebook, offering a list of complications and information on each. - Resources for families choosing to continue a pregnancy following prenatal testing that indicates the baby has a terminal condition. - Offering information about screening choices, and state requirements. Includes resource library, and links to testing facilities. - Support and information for parents. - Raising international awareness about the nearly 600,000 women who die each year pregnancy-related complications, worldwide. - Researchers find that denial of pregnancy is not rare, is not well correlated with various presumed causative factors, but is a complication that can be dangerous to mother and fetus. (November 20, 2006)
