But the time for routine cervical length measurement during the anatomy survey ultrasound has come. My patient started taking progesterone that very day, and we made a plan to see her again in two ...

If your ultrasound shows that your cervical length is less than 29 millimeters but greater than 25 millimeters, your health care provider might recommend more frequent ultrasounds to monitor your ...

A new cervical ultrasound technique may help prevent premature births, the leading cause of death and disabilities in newborns, by alerting physicians to an expectant mother’s early shortening ...

However, studies have shown that women who have a short cervix, less than 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) long, as measured on ultrasound scans during mid-pregnancy, are at high risk for preterm birth.

Send press releases and comments to [email protected]. Cite this: Cervical Length Equivalent to Fetal Fibronectin for Predicting Preterm Birth - Medscape - May 28, 2010.

Meeting Coverage > SMFM Cervical Length Screening Did Not Reduce Rates of Preterm Births — Despite numerically lower numbers, no differences were statistically significant vs no screening by ...

Mar. 27 -- WEDNESDAY, March 26 (HealthDay News) -- The length of a woman's cervix at mid-pregnancy may indicate her risk of needing a Caesarean birth, a new study suggests. "Women having their ...

To investigate the relationship between cervical length (CL) at 37 to 40 weeks and delivery within 7 days and delivery by 41 weeks. We performed transvaginal ultrasound to measure CL in women with ...

Transvaginal ultrasound cervical length for prediction of spontaneous labour at term: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 2015; DOI ...

In a new study published in the journal Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, almost 240 ultrasounds were performed on 67 African American women to examine cervical length and signal attenuation ...

(Sasan was not involved in the study.) “Measuring a cervical length with transvaginal ultrasound between 37-39 weeks can be quite difficult because the cervix is not fully [or] optimally visible ...