False negative point‐of‐care urine pregnancy tests in an urban academic emergency department: a retrospective cohort study [PDF]
Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2021 Study objective To determine the prevalence of false negative point‐of‐care (POC) urine pregnancy tests among emergency department (ED) patients and among those with abdominal pain or vaginal bleeding.
Sarah Kleinschmidt +3 more
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Effect of pregnancy tests on demand for family planning: evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Uganda [PDF]
Reproductive Health, 2021 Plain Language Summary Women in developing countries, especially in Africa, have high-unmet needs for family planning as well as high-unintended rates of pregnancy. At the same time, they may learn their pregnancy status later than women in higher-income
Akito Kamei +2 more
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Comparison of two bovine serum pregnancy tests in detection of artificial insemination pregnancies and pregnancy loss in beef cattle. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Blood tests for early detection of pregnancy in cattle based on pregnancy-associated glycoproteins (PAGs) are commercially available. The objective of these studies were to compare the accuracy of blood tests to transrectal ultrasonography in detecting ...
Emmalee J Northrop +3 more
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Clinics, 2014 The letter to the editor “Safety concerns in pregnancy”, written by Yalcinkaya et al. (1), was very interesting, questioning the real benefits of performing invasive tests during pregnancy. In particular, regarding the case report entitled “Congenital aneurysmal circumflex coronary artery fistula in a pregnant woman” (2), written by our group, the ...
Meliza Goi Roscani +7 more
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Commentary on intentional falsification of at-home pregnancy tests [PDF]
JAAD Case Reports, 2022 Leah Lalor, MD +5 more
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Home pregnancy tests for iPLEDGE: ethically dealing with potential falsifications [PDF]
International Journal of Women's Dermatology, 2023 Gabrielle Schwartzman, MD +2 more
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Rethinking urinary tract infections in women with abdominal pain in pregnancy: a prospective case-control study [PDF]
BMC Pregnancy and ChildbirthBackground Abdominal pain in pregnancy may be caused by urinary tract infection (UTI), which is associated with preterm birth and pyelonephritis. Standard urine culture is insensitive; alternative tests, previously studied in chronic UTI, may improve UTI
Jane L. D. Currie +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 In sub-Saharan Africa little is known about how often women use pregnancy self-tests or characteristics of these women despite evidence that pregnancy self-testing is associated with early antenatal care (ANC) initiation.
Nina Nganga +10 more
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Changes in liver functions tests during pregnancy [PDF]
مجلة جامعة الانبار للعلوم الصرفة, 2012 Pregnancy is a normal physiological phenomenon associated with many physiological changes that assist the nurturing and survival of the fetus, liver function affected by these changes.
Maryam I. Salman
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Testing for Cytomegalovirus in Pregnancy [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2017 ABSTRACT Congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection represents a relevant cause of deafness and neurological damage in newborns. Intrauterine CMV transmission might result after primary or nonprimary infections, though at different rates (30% versus 0.2%, respectively).
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