Hypertensive diseases of pregnancy are the leading cause of maternal mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean and the second highest cause of maternal mortality in developed countries, accounting ...

Mathematicians are coupling mathematical models with information about a baby's physiology inside the womb. Combining ultrasound with powerful algorithms based on real-life data, pediatricians get ...

Pregnancy brings significant circulatory changes, often causing blood pressure dips, especially in early trimesters. While ...

Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), one of the more common cardiac defects present at birth, is the persistence of an opening between the pulmonary artery and aorta. This opening is as a result of failure ...

When a fetus is smaller than expected for the number of weeks of pregnancy, due to associated problems like a poorly developed heart, health concerns as severe as brain damage can result. The ...