Complications Of Labor

Question 1

A marker of impending preterm labor if found in high conc in the cervicovaginal secretions

Answer 1

Fetal fibronectin= > 50 ng/mL
Other markers:
Saluvary Estriol
Insulin like factor binding protein 1
Placental alpha macroglobulin 1
Matrix metalloproteinases 9

Question 2

Bleeding is the consequence of velamentous insertion of umbilical cord

Answer 2

Vasa previa

Question 3

Fetal vessels pass over the cervical os and may rupture

Answer 3

Vasa previa

Question 4

Defective decidual vascularization

Answer 4

Placenta previa

Question 5

Third trimester painful bleeding with crampy abdominal pain in a px with hpn or any hx of trauma

Answer 5

Abruptio placenta

Question 6

Uterine apoplexy

Answer 6

Couvelaire uterus

- extravasation of blood into the myometrium and bet the serosa