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Poster presentations – Maternal medicine

• Identification of predictive biomarkers for pre-eclampsia by plasma proteomic profiling (16 November, 2010)

  E Breslin, S Slade, R Akolekar, K Nicolaides, J Scrivens, S Thornton
• Adipose tissue metabolism in obese pregnant women (16 November, 2010)

  SM Barr, BR Walker, NM Morton, JE Norman
• Maternal cytotoxic T cell responses to fetal antigens during and after pregnancy (16 November, 2010)

  DM Lissauer, KP Piper, PAH Moss, MD Kilby
• Maternal obesity and ethnic groups: trends in 552 303 births over 13 years in England, UK (16 November, 2010)

  N Heslehurst, N Sattar, D Rajasingham, J Rankin, A Batterham, JR Wilkinson, CD Summerbell
• Is positive affect in late pregnancy protective of postpartum depression? (16 November, 2010)

  S Carvalho Bos, A Macedo, M Marques, AT Pereira, B Maia, MJ Soares, J Valente, AA Gomes, MH Azevedo
• Assessment of the mobility of mothers post partum and identification of those at greatest risk of venous thromboembolism (16 November, 2010)

  R Sharma, H Atkin, L MacKillop, S Paterson-Brown
• Obstetric outcomes in women with congenital heart disease and residual right ventricular outflow tract lesions (16 November, 2010)

  A Khalil, M Greutman, R Brooks, P O'Brien, F Walker
• Lean women with a central fat distribution have a higher degree of chronic inflammation at antenatal booking than lean women with a lower body fat distribution (16 November, 2010)

  EMK Jarvie, F Stewart, JE Ramsay, DJ Freeman
• Resistin in pregestational and gestational diabetic pregnancy (16 November, 2010)

  M Higgins, N Russell, D Brazil, F McAuliffe
• Prospective cohort study to examine the association between maternal anxiety and depression and subsequent pregnancy outcomes (16 November, 2010)

  CM Everard, GO Carroll, A Khashan, L McGowan, R North, G Dekker, C Roberts, L Howard, LC Kenny
• Modulation of p53 activity in the pregnant mouse (16 November, 2010)

  A Sharp, I Cardenas, AEP Heazell, PN Baker, IP Crocker, G Mor
• Thrombin activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor antigen and activity levels in normal pregnancy (16 November, 2010)

  FY Huq, C Chi, A Riddell, B Whitlow, RA Kadir
• Audit of vitamin D deficiency in ethnic pregnant population at Liverpool Womens Hospital (16 November, 2010)

  M Akhtar, R Tildesley, H Cliffe, J Topping
• A cross sectional study to compare D-Dimer levels in the first trimester of pregnancy to the recommended cut off in normal non-pregnant population (16 November, 2010)

  N Murphy, D Broadhurst, O Gilligan, W Jabarudin, A Khashan, L Kenny, K O'Donoghue
• Postpartum changes in the level of factor VIII and von Willebrand factor (16 November, 2010)

  FY Huq, A Kulkarni, E Egbam, E Tuddenham, RA Kadir
• The contribution of genital tract sepsis to maternal deaths in London (16 November, 2010)

  E Shamil, A Shennan, S Lucas
• The effects of electromagnetic field on follicle in rat (a light microscopic study) (16 November, 2010)

  AA Khaki
• Unexpected benefit of haemoglobinopathy screening (16 November, 2010)

  J Topping, M Adishesh
• Follow-up of women with gestational diabetes in England (16 November, 2010)

  MB Pierce, J Modder, I Mortagy, H Hughes, A Springett, S Baldeweg
• A cross-sectional study comparing D-Dimer levels from first trimester to day 2 post partum in low risk pregnancies (16 November, 2010)

  N Murphy, B Wallace, D Broadhurst, A Khashan, O Gilligan, L Kenny, K O'Donoghue
• Interobserver and interdevice variability of manual and electronic gestational age calculators (16 November, 2010)

  EM Smout, AH Shennan, PT Seed
• A qualitative study of the factors affecting the access of antenatal services for pregnant substance users (16 November, 2010)

  EL Mastrocola, K Laing, JM Rankin, EFS Kaner
• Objective measurement of physical activity in overweight and obese pregnant women (16 November, 2010)

  C McParlin, TI Kinnunen, PWG Tennant, L Poston, R Bell, SC Robson
• Meows – time to review the trigger threshold? (16 November, 2010)

  M Dudley, A Wright, R Simons, A McGlennan
• Clinical outcomes with the LMWH, tinzaparin in pregnancy: an international retrospective audit (16 November, 2010)

  C Nelson-Piercy, M Rodger, R Powrie, JY Borg, I Greer
• Maternal body mass index affects the dose of enoxaparin required to achieve effective thromboprophylaxis during pregnancy (16 November, 2010)

  FC Denison, MC Walker, L Horn, SJ Stock, JE Norman
• Management and outcome of HIV in pregnancy (16 November, 2010)

  JD Unsworth, M Farazmand, R Gabani, S Wilson, K Chan, C Tower
• Systematic review of association between thyroid autoantibodies and adverse pregnancy outcome (16 November, 2010)

  S Thangaratinam, E Knox, A Tan, J Franklyn, MD Kilby, A Coomarasamy
• The 6-week postpartum oral glucose tolerance test for women with gestational diabetes: an opportune time for risk assessment and for implementing lifestyle changes (16 November, 2010)

  A Bird, J O'Brien, C Candelier
• Pregnancy and the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus: experiences in Leicester including the women referred for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (16 November, 2010)

  A Moronke, G Faulkner, F Siddiqui, C Roy, R Firmin
• BMI threshold for gestational diabetes: a survey assessing sensitivity of BMI 30–34 in screening for women with gestational diabetes mellitus (16 November, 2010)

  J Karim, W Ogunnoiki, A Perera
• Audit on the use of empirical antibiotics in pregnant women with presumed UTI and their correlation to MSU results (16 November, 2010)

  T Rohatgi, M Nemcova, S Calvert, S Porter, L Rogerson
• Body composition of moderate and severe obese pregnant women attending a weight management clinic (16 November, 2010)

  J Balani, H Shehata, S Hyer
• Treatment regimes in type 2 diabetic pregnancies: analysis of West Midlands confidential enquiry data (16 November, 2010)

  N Shah, P Brydon, P Dyer, J Gardosi
• Pregnancy outcome and effects on maternal health in women with cystic fibrosis at a tertiary referral centre (16 November, 2010)

  SJ Pierce, J Brewster, C Etherington
• Swine flu vaccination: uptake and determinants of vaccination in pregnant women and hospital staff in Ireland (16 November, 2010)

  CM McCarthy, A Arya
• Trends in obstetric admissions to ICU (16 November, 2010)

  C Harrity, J Glenn, H Sidhu, C McAllister
• Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in a North London antenatal population (16 November, 2010)

  M Parisaei, J Clements, A Govind, P Arora, H Lakshmi, P Kapila
• Defining a normal reference range for haematological variables during pregnancy in a Scottish population (16 November, 2010)

  RC Shields, V Caric, O Jones, L Wark, M McColl, J Ramsay, M Hair
• Charting of observations and modified early warning score in a high risk obstetric ward (16 November, 2010)

  C Fitzpatrick, H Scholefield, P Ryder, P Coffey
• A national survey of maternity services for women with obesity in pregnancy in the UK (16 November, 2010)

  J Modder, KJ Fitzsimons
• Low-dose aspirin for prevention of pre-eclampsia and its complications: a cost-effectiveness analysis (16 November, 2010)

  SA Vogel, R Rajaii, G Ottaviano, L Kim, A Yeaton-Massey, AB Caughey
• Pre-eclampsia as an etiology for preterm birth: what is the burden of disease? (16 November, 2010)

  SA Vogel, R Rajaii, AJ Kane, Y Cheng, G Ottaviano, AB Caughey
• H1N1 vaccine in pregnancy: the response so far (16 November, 2010)

  D Abbott, K Morton
• Effect of uterine artery embolization on uterine vasculature: Doppler assessment of the uterine arteries (16 November, 2010)

  NS Banu, U Pillai, AM Belli, IT Manyonda
• Withdrawn (16 November, 2010)
• Diagnosis of fetal congenital malformations in pregestational diabetic pregnancies in the UK (16 November, 2010)

  N Shah, P Brydon, C Shuter, J Gardosi
• Prospective audit of major obstetric haemorrhage – a pilot study (16 November, 2010)

  SN Johnson, S Varadkar, S Khalid, J Fleming, R Fanning, C Flynn, B Byrne
• Audit of preconception advice to women of childbearing age with conditions likely to affect the outcome and course of pregnancy (16 November, 2010)

  SM Vashishtha, K Upadhyay
• Pre-eclampsia as an etiology for preterm birth: what is the burden of disease for twins? (16 November, 2010)

  SA Vogel, AJ Kane, R Rajaii, Y Cheng, AB Caughey
• The value of mid-arm circumference measurements in a diabetic population (16 November, 2010)

  N Farah, N Joyce, M Kennelly, S Daly, MJ Turner
• An observational study of paternal body mass index and body composition during pregnancy (16 November, 2010)

  N Farah, R Kelly, N O'Connor, M Kennelly, B Stuart, MJ Turner
• Audit of outcomes of pregnancies with an abnormal 1 h glucose tolerance test value between December 2004 and December 2009 (16 November, 2010)

  N Mohammed, A Barling, M Johnson, A Wren, D Ofili-Yebovi, M Lupton
• A review of the management of HIV positive pregnant patients in a District General Hospital setting (16 November, 2010)

  S Usman, S Farthing, A Dixit
• Changing trend in mode of delivery in pregnant women with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in a teaching hospital in the UK (16 November, 2010)

  U Venkitaraman, O Navti, M Nakade, V Kalathy, M Jethwa, L Boon, J Qualie, E Howarth, J Dhar, M Khare
• 2009 H1N1 influenza in pregnancy and reproductive-age women: a North East London experience (16 November, 2010)

  O Barigye, M Noble, J Sidhu, CM Otigbah, RJ Howard
• Audit on access to antenatal care: from referral to full booking visit (16 November, 2010)

  G Gomathy, K Daisy
• Maternal cardiac disease-peripartum management (16 November, 2010)

  R Parasuraman, J Kerr, GR Veldtman, DT Howe
• Resurgence of syphilis: the largest case series of syphilis in pregnancy and the neonatal period in UK (16 November, 2010)

  B Radhakrishnan, S Seshadri, D Uchil, A Sau, A Jolaoso, R Cochrane
• Ten years' experience of HIV positive pregnancies at the RVI, Newcastle Upon Tyne (16 November, 2010)

  CF Rosales, C Scott, M Murdoch, E Michael
• Lower Caesarean section rates in women induced for obstetric cholestasis (16 November, 2010)

  CF Rosales, F Lamb, P Ayuk
• Maternal age, fertility treatment, and the temporal effect on the twinning rate in Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan (1980–2004) (16 November, 2010)

  H Faisel, Z Roberts, P Lindsay
• Pregnancy outcome in patients with history of recurrent spontaneous abortions: a 5-year review (16 November, 2010)

  N Salvi, Y Mohammad, O Amu
• To review practice in the management of rhesus D-negative women during pregnancy (16 November, 2010)

  N Kadwadkar, J Lo
• Perinatal mental health services in West Hertfordshire NHS Trust: a review (16 November, 2010)

  O Subair
• Risk assessment scoring for thromboembolism: what proportions of obstetric patients are at risk? (16 November, 2010)

  BJ Revell, RP Smith
• Mode of conception of triplets and high order multiple pregnancy in Dublin – a 10-year review (16 November, 2010)

  I Basit, S Johnson, E Mocanu, M Geary, M Wingfield, S Daly
• Is HIV in pregnancy still a disease? (16 November, 2010)

  SA Tirlapur, M Johnson, W Zhang, J Hazell, D Levitt, T Joseph, K McGregor, A Wright
• Pregnancy outcomes of an antenatal bariatric clinic (16 November, 2010)

  K McIntyre, K McNamee, S Quenby
• Staff views of a new antenatal early warning score chart (16 November, 2010)

  A Green, S Wallace, A Ellis
• A systematic review of mitochondrial disease in pregnancy (16 November, 2010)

  RE Say, RG Whittaker, HE Turnbull, R McFarland, RW Taylor, DM Turnbull
• Should coagulation screen be performed in all patients with gestational hypertension and pre-eclampsia (16 November, 2010)

  S Kodiathodi, S Curpad, S Paul
• Spontaneous adrenal haemorrhage in a second trimester pregnancy (16 November, 2010)

  B Lawson, CE Conner
• Pregnancy outcomes after large loop excision of transformation zone of cervix (16 November, 2010)

  S Parveen, N Kadwadkar
• Audit of obstetric haemorrhage and the use and electronic traceability of blood transfusions in the maternity unit, Sunderland Royal Hospital (16 November, 2010)

  S Newbold, S Adair
• District General Hospital experience of managing perinatal mental illness (16 November, 2010)

  RM Hodnett, A Wijesiriwardana
• An urgent need to tackle the maternal obesity epidemic (16 November, 2010)

  CK Candelier, J O'Brien, A Bird
• Impact of an obstetric psychiatric service in an ethnically diverse Greater London Hospital (16 November, 2010)

  K Joash, J Girling
• Evaluation of antenatal thrombocytopenia in 115 women attending a tertiary centre, together with neonatal platelet counts: can this information help in antenatal counselling (16 November, 2010)

  J Rajeswary, B Myers
• A case of tuberculosis causing extensive surgical maternal morbidity and poor neonatal outcome (16 November, 2010)

  M Ghosh, P Bosio
• Withdrawn (16 November, 2010)
• HIV and pregnancy in Bradford – making the protocol work (16 November, 2010)

  S Nicholas, G Chudasama, V Beckett
• A subtle presentation of hepatic encephalopathy (16 November, 2010)

  SV Darbhamulla, M Ghosh, S Bakour, N Bhatti, N Shah
• A case report of postpartum acute coronary artery dissection (16 November, 2010)

  A Abouelela Morsy, S Meti
• Does regular administration of pethidine during second trimester termination of pregnancy lead to quicker evacuation of the uterus? (16 November, 2010)

  K Blanas, M Theodora, S Mesogitis, M Syndos, G Daskalakis, N Papantoniou, A Antsaklis
• Postpartum hypertension – an evidence based audit (16 November, 2010)

  A Anbazhagan, P Fogarty, A Hunter, R Harper
• Mid thoracic syndrome in pregnancy: a rare cause of secondary hypertension (16 November, 2010)

  SN Johnson, T Kelleher, SO Neill, P Crean, J Cosgrave, J Meaney, K Astbury, C Regan, B Byrne
• Fulminant development of diabetes mellitus presenting as diabetic ketoacidosis in a pregnant Caucasian woman (16 November, 2010)

  EH Shaw, KE O'Brien, RG Hayman
• A novel cause for abnormal liver function tests in pregnancy and puerperium – non-alcoholic fatty liver disease – the first reported case series (16 November, 2010)

  LM Page, JC Girling
• The impact of the H1N1 pandemic in pregnancy – a district General Hospital Perspective (16 November, 2010)

  C Mullan, J Davies
• Severe H1N1 virus in pregnancy requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and lobectomy (16 November, 2010)

  F Dawood, K McNamee
• Portal vein thrombosis in pregnancy – a case series (16 November, 2010)

  A Anbazhagan, A Harper, C Bailie
• A rare case of confirmed acquired anaphylaxis to dinoprostone (16 November, 2010)

  H Nik, F Dawood
• “Gynaecological malignancies complicating pregnancy: a review” (16 November, 2010)

  E Halkia, G Stefanatou, D Spaliaras, E Pateraki, C Mylona, N Akrivos, G Vorgias
• Addison's disease in the peripartum period, three case reports (16 November, 2010)

  M MacDougall, S Adair, R Nayar
• Gestational diabetes presenting as diabetic ketoacidosis (16 November, 2010)

  MJ Prior, D Gopinath, CMH Schram
• Moyamoya syndrome in pregnancy – management of two consecutive pregnancies (16 November, 2010)

  EH Shaw, RG Hayman
• Pubic symphysis diastasis an unusual postpartum complication (16 November, 2010)

  J Mechery, B Hayden