U-World 1 Flashcards
Neonatal thyrotoxicosis results from
Transplacental passage of anti-TSH receptor antibodies during 3rd thrimester
Does thyroid hormone or exogenous levothyroxin cross placenta?
Not to significant degree
Tx for neonatal thyrotoxicosis
Methimazole + B blocker
When does Rh alloimmunization occur
When mother is Rh negative and baby is Rh positive
When to give two rho-gam doses
At 28 weeks and within 72 hours after delivery
What is the Kleihauer-Betke test
Used to determine whether higher dose of rho-gam is needed
If pt is on COC and has HTN, what do you do
d/c COC, usually causes resolution
Sheehan syndrome causes lack of what hormones
Anterior pituitary (Prolacting, GH, ACTH)
Epidural anesthesia effects on bladder
Over distention may cause loss of ability to contract causes overflow incontinence, tx short term with indwelling catheter
(don’t just observe because bladder needs to be decompressed)
First test on all women of childbearing age
Pregnancy test
What should be allowed to proceed in patients where fetus has been diagnosed with severe anomaly incompatible with life
Labor
Tx for pregnant woman w/ syphillis if pen allergy
Penicillin desensitization
Important AE of OCPs
Breakthrough bleeding, HTN, and increased risk of venous thromboembolism
Not weight gain
What is PMDD
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder - severe form of pMS with irritability and anger symptoms
4 rec Ab for UTI in pregnancy
- Nitrofurantoin
- Amoxicillin
- Amox-Clavulanate
- Cephalexin
TMP-SMX interferes with what in pregnancy
Folic acid metabolism –> contra in first trimester
3 things that usually cause symmetric fetal growth restriction
Fetal anomalies, fetal karyotype abnormality, and early maternal viral infection (MC)
Fetal factors
Most common fetal infection in US
CMV
Causes of asymmetric fetal growth
Maternal factors (Vascular disease, lupus Ab syndrome, autoimmune diseases, substance abuse)
When are elevated BP in pregnancy considered chronic HTN
> 20 weeks
Hyperaldosteronism causes
Hypernatremia and hypokalemia
Most common risk factor for placental abruption
Hypertension
Tx for variable compressions
Expectant management
2 recommended tx options for stress incontinence
Pelvic muscle exercises and urethropexy
Tx for BV
Metronidazole
same for Trich but tx patient also
What is pseudocyesis
Rare psychiatric condition in which a woman presents with nearly all signs and symptoms of pregnancy, but US reveals normal endometrial stripe and neg pregnancy test
US of missed abortion
Intrauterine collapsed gestational sac and absent fetal cardiac activity
in office preg test will still be positive
Tumor marker for ovarian cancer
CA125
cervical mucus in ovulatory phase
profuse, clear, and thin
will stretch to 6 cm
What is endometritis characterized by? Risk factors?
fever and uterine tenderness in postpartum period, often associated with foul-smelling loci
Risk factors include prolonged PROM, prolonged labor, operative vaginal delivery and C-section
MCC of postpartum endometritis? Tx?
Polymicrobial
Tx: IV clindamycin and gentamicin
MCC of mucupurulant cervicitis
Chlamydia
Side effects of depot shot
Weight gain, amenorrhea, nausea, breast tenderness
Contraindications to breast feeding
Active TB, Maternal HIV, herpetic breast lesions, varicella, chemo, active substance abuse
Infant contraindication to breast feeding
Galactosemia
What makes an abscess more likely than mastitis
Fluctuance