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Recent Advances in Maternal and Fetal Health (2nd Edition)
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Recent Advances in Maternal and Fetal Health (2nd Edition)

A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2025 | Viewed by 688

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Nicolae Gică

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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Filantropia Clinical Hospital, 011171 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: obstetrics–gynecology; fetal growth; prenatal screening; preterm birth; maternal and fetal health
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Dr. Anca Marina Ciobanu

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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Filantropia, Clinical Hospital Bucharest, 011171 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: obstetrics–gynecology; fetal growth; prenatal screening; preterm birth; maternal and fetal health
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Improving prenatal care has been the main focus over the last few decades in this complex and rapidly evolving field of maternal–fetal medicine. Developing new tools in ultrasound diagnosis, expanding prenatal genetic diagnosis, finding new screening strategies for severe conditions, such as pre-eclampsia or preterm birth, and implementing preventive measures have been the latest achievements aiming to reduce maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality.

Considering the popularity of the Special Issue, “Recent Advances in Maternal and Fetal Health”, previously published in the journal Children (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/children/special_issues/SO72DLL3P1), we now release a second issue that aims to highlight recent advances in the fields of maternal and fetal medicine, including prenatal diagnosis of fetal genetic and structural abnormalities, new insights in the management of chronic or gestational maternal conditions, and new screening strategies of various pregnancy complications involving both the fetus and woman. Particular interest is focused on the fields of maternal hypertensive disorders, intrauterine growth restriction, recurrent pregnancy loss, preterm birth or stillbirth, and genetic and structural fetal abnormalities.

Submissions of original unpublished studies are welcome, including observational and interventional studies, as well as RCTs and reviews.

Dr. Nicolae Gică
Dr. Anca Marina Ciobanu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • placental insufficiency
  • maternal medical conditions
  • ultrasound diagnosis
  • fetal genetic conditions
  • fetal growth
  • prenatal screening
  • perinatal morbidity
  • preterm birth

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Supporting Antenatal Counselling for Anticipated Preterm Births at the Limits of Viability in Non-Tertiary Centres
by Alessia Gallipoli, Kyong-Soon Lee and Vibhuti Shah
Children 2025, 12(3), 256; https://doi.org/10.3390/children12030256 - 20 Feb 2025
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Background: Presentations of preterm labour at <25 weeks of gestational age (GA) require timely evidence-based counselling and management to optimise outcomes and facilitate informed decisions. In non-tertiary centres, this counselling is often especially challenging. Objectives: (1) To develop a tool to support [...] Read more.
Background: Presentations of preterm labour at <25 weeks of gestational age (GA) require timely evidence-based counselling and management to optimise outcomes and facilitate informed decisions. In non-tertiary centres, this counselling is often especially challenging. Objectives: (1) To develop a tool to support counselling for preterm births at <25 weeks of GA, and (2) to refine and facilitate the utilisation of this tool and develop targeted supports through an understanding of challenges to providing counselling in non-tertiary centres. Methods: Perinatal risk factors and local outcome data were incorporated into a counselling tool. Semi-structured virtual interviews were conducted with participants with experience in counselling or receiving care at <25 weeks of GA in non-tertiary centres. Interviewees included transport team members, paediatricians, obstetricians, one family physician, and one parent. Analysis using interpretive description methodology was performed to identify themes in participant practice and experience. Results: A risk-based counselling tool was developed, including guidance for counselling discussions. Twenty-one interviews were completed. Practice challenges that were identified included a lack of updated knowledge on practices in tertiary centres, discomfort in providing counselling, variability in counselling content, and a variation in health care provider teams involved in counselling. All providers expressed a desire for further education in this area. Conclusions: Support for providers in non-tertiary centres in the counselling of periviable preterm families is much needed. The development of our practice tool targeted for non-tertiary centres provides an important step in this process. The next steps include responding to the expressed need from providers for education and training in the counselling and management of periviable preterm pregnancies. Full article
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