Supplement your learning for ISUOG's education course on Preterm birth.
Explore the topic before you attend our course:
In order to make the most of this learning experience and help you achieve your learning objectives, we have prepared a path to guide you from the essentials to our course’s topics through ISUOG resources. The material below will take you from the most basic aspects to a more comprehensive view of the course material, and some activities may grant you CME points.
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Basic Training resources
Lecture 8: Cervical assessment
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Cervix
The uterus is a pear-shaped organ consists of the fundus, the body, and the cervix. Cervical size changes in relation to the size of the body of the uterus throughout female life from the fetal life to puberty.
UOG Articles
Cost-effectiveness of cervical length screening and progesterone treatment to prevent spontaneous preterm delivery in Sweden
T. Wikström, P. Kuusela, B. Jacobsson, H. Hagberg, P. Lindgren, M. Svensson, U. Britt Wennerholm, L. Valentin
23 February 2022
Vaginal progesterone for the prevention of preterm birth and adverse perinatal outcomes in twin gestations with a short cervix: an updated individual patient data meta-analysis
R. Romero, A. Conde-Agudelo, A. Rehal, E. Da Fonseca, M. L. Brizot, L. Rode, V. Serra, E. Cetingoz, A. Syngelaki, A. Tabor, A. Perales, S. S. Hassan, K. H. Nicolaides
23 December 2021
Evaluation of ‘opt-in’ approach to cervical-length screening for reducing preterm birth
C. L. Ward, S. Crouser, C. S. Buhimschi, S. F. Thung, P. Samuels, C. D. Lynch, M. B. Landon, H. A. Frey
12 July 2021
Implementation of universal screening for preterm delivery by mid-trimester cervical-length measurement
A. P. Souka, I. Papastefanou, A. Pilalis, D. Kassanos, G. Papadopoulos
14 March 2018
Prevention of preterm birth with pessary in singletons (PoPPS): randomized controlled trial
L. Dugoff, V. Berghella, H. Sehdev, A. D. Mackeen, L. Goetzl, J. Ludmir
20 September 2017
Cerclage for sonographic short cervix in singleton gestations without prior spontaneous preterm birth: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials using individual patient-level data
V. Berghella, A. Ciardulli, O. A. Rust, M. To, K. Otsuki, S. Althuisius, K. H. Nicolaides, A. Roman, G. Saccone
10 March 2017
Learning modules
View lectures on similar subjects.
Spontaneous preterm labor can be predicted and prevented: progress at last?
R. Romero 2021
Universal cervical length screening
Z. Alfirevic 2020
A plea for good methodology: the strengths and limitations of approaches to developing prediction models in obsetrics and gynecology
B Van Caster 2020
Literature review (Prediction of the great obstetrical syndromes)
E Becker 2020
Ultrasound in preventing the Great Obstetrical problems: Preterm birth
H Feltovitch 2018
CME activities
CME Activity: Ability of a Preterm Surveillance Clinic to Triage Risk of Preterm Birth: A Prospective Cohort Study
CME Activity: Prevention of Preterm Birth with Pessary in Singletons (Popps): Randomized Controlled Trial
CME Activity: Preterm Birth
CME Activity: How to Predict and Prevent Preterm Labour?