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| Uma M ReddySummaryAffiliation: National Institutes of Health Country: USA Publications
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The role of DNA microarrays in the evaluation of fetal deathUma M Reddy
the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Prenat Diagn 32:371-5. 2012..The accurate diagnosis of a genetic abnormality as the cause for fetal death may provide closure for families, prevent unnecessary treatments, and enable clinicians to more accurately counsel and manage subsequent pregnancies...
Prediction and prevention of recurrent stillbirthUma M Reddy
Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20852, USA
Obstet Gynecol 110:1151-64. 2007..Antepartum fetal surveillance and fetal movement counting are also mainstays of poststillbirth pregnancy management...
Prepregnancy risk factors for antepartum stillbirth in the United StatesUma M Reddy
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Obstet Gynecol 116:1119-26. 2010..To identify possible prepregnancy risk factors for antepartum stillbirth and to determine whether these factors identify women at higher risk for term stillbirth...
Prenatal imaging: ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imagingUma M Reddy
Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Department of Health and Human Services, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 7510, USA
Obstet Gynecol 112:145-57. 2008..Fewer data exist on the usefulness of fetal MRI for non-central nervous system anomalies...
Stillbirth classification--developing an international consensus for research: executive summary of a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development workshopUma M Reddy
Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 7510, USA
Obstet Gynecol 114:901-14. 2009..In all cases, owing to lack of sufficient knowledge about disease states and normal development, there will be a degree of uncertainty regarding whether a specific condition was indeed the cause of death...
Term pregnancy: a period of heterogeneous risk for infant mortalityUma M Reddy
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Obstet Gynecol 117:1279-87. 2011..To estimate the trend of maternal racial and ethnic differences in mortality for early-term (37 0/7 to 38 6/7 weeks of gestation) compared with full-term births (39 0/7 to 41 6/7 weeks of gestation)...
Comparison of first and second trimester aneuploidy risk assessmentUma M Reddy
Department of Health and Human Services, Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 7510, USA
Clin Obstet Gynecol 50:442-53. 2007....
Infertility, assisted reproductive technology, and adverse pregnancy outcomes: executive summary of a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development workshopUma M Reddy
Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 7510, USA
Obstet Gynecol 109:967-77. 2007..Significant gaps in knowledge were identified, and the basic science and clinical and epidemiologic research required to address these gaps is outlined...
Management of pregnancy after stillbirthUma M Reddy
Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Clin Obstet Gynecol 53:700-9. 2010..Categorization of the cause of the previous stillbirth will allow better estimation of individual recurrence risk of the condition that is associated with stillbirth and help guide management...
Delivery indications at late-preterm gestations and infant mortality rates in the United StatesUma M Reddy
Department of Health and Human Services, Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 7510, USA
Pediatrics 124:234-40. 2009..The causes for these trends remain unclear. We characterized the delivery indications for late preterm births and their potential impact on neonatal and infant mortality rates...
Contemporary cesarean delivery practice in the United StatesJun Zhang
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 203:326.e1-326.e10. 2010..To describe contemporary cesarean delivery practice in the United States...
Neonatal mortality by attempted route of delivery in early preterm birthUma M Reddy
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 207:117.e1-8. 2012..We sought to study neonatal outcomes in early preterm births by delivery route...
Obstetric complications among US women with asthmaPauline Mendola
Epidemiology Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Rockville, MD, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 208:127.e1-8. 2013..We sought to characterize complications of pregnancy, labor, and delivery associated with maternal asthma in a contemporary US cohort...
Karyotype versus microarray testing for genetic abnormalities after stillbirthUma M Reddy
Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch, The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development NICHD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 7510, USA
N Engl J Med 367:2185-93. 2012..Unlike karyotype analysis, microarray analysis does not require live cells, and it detects small deletions and duplications called copy-number variants...
Induction of labor in a contemporary obstetric cohortS Katherine Laughon
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 206:486.e1-9. 2012..We sought to describe details of labor induction, including precursors and methods, and associated vaginal delivery rates...
Incorporating first-trimester Down syndrome studies into prenatal screening: executive summary of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development workshopUma M Reddy
Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-7510, USA
Obstet Gynecol 107:167-73. 2006..These requirements include training and quality control standards for first-trimester nuchal translucency measurement and laboratory assays, access to chorionic villus sampling, and appropriate counseling regarding screening options...
Using a simplified Bishop score to predict vaginal deliveryS Katherine Laughon
Epidemiology Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Obstet Gynecol 117:805-11. 2011..However, it was created without modern statistical methods. Our objective was to determine whether a simplified score can predict vaginal delivery equally well...
Precursors for late preterm birth in singleton gestationsS Katherine Laughon
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland USA
Obstet Gynecol 116:1047-55. 2010..To characterize precursors for late preterm birth in singletons and incidences of neonatal morbidities and perinatal mortality by gestational age and precursor...
Racial disparities in stillbirth risk across gestation in the United StatesMarian Willinger
Center for Developmental Biology and Perinatal Medicine, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 201:469.e1-8. 2009..We sought to determine factors associated with racial disparities in stillbirth risk...
Maternal age and the risk of stillbirth throughout pregnancy in the United StatesUma M Reddy
Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 195:764-70. 2006..CONCLUSION: Women who are of advanced maternal age are at higher risk of stillbirth throughout gestation; the peak risk period is 37 to 41 weeks...
Preeclampsia--a pressing problem: an executive summary of a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development workshopJohn V Ilekis
Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 7510, USA
Reprod Sci 14:508-23. 2007..The research community needs to focus on these gaps to better understand the disease, with the ultimate goal of preventing the disorder...
Maternal plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations and the risk for gestational diabetes mellitusCuilin Zhang
Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
PLoS ONE 3:e3753. 2008..Our objective is to determine the association between maternal plasma 25-[OH] D concentrations in early pregnancy and the risk for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM)...
Contemporary patterns of spontaneous labor with normal neonatal outcomesJun Zhang
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Obstet Gynecol 116:1281-7. 2010..To use contemporary labor data to examine the labor patterns in a large, modern obstetric population in the United States...
Relationship of maternal body mass index and height to twinningUma M Reddy
Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Obstet Gynecol 105:593-7. 2005..However, dizygotic twinning has also been related to obesity in foreign populations. We sought to confirm this relationship in U.S. pregnancies, which predated widespread use of fertility drugs...
Kleihauer-betke testing is important in all cases of maternal traumaMichael V Muench
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Trauma 57:1094-8. 2004..With a positive KB test, the significant risk of PTL mandates detailed monitoring. KB testing has important advantages to all maternal trauma victims, regardless of Rh status...
The evolving prenatal screening sceneUma M Reddy
Obstet Gynecol 110:2-4. 2007
Detection of viral deoxyribonucleic acid in amniotic fluid: association with fetal malformation and pregnancy abnormalitiesUma M Reddy
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201-1703, USA
Fetal Diagn Ther 20:203-7. 2005..There were no significant geographic differences in the incidence of AF viral PCR positivity...
Research Grants
- A Prospective Cohort Study of Migraines, Platelet Activation, and PreeclampsiaMichelle Williams; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- A Prospective Cohort Study of Migraines, Platelet Activation, and PreeclampsiaMichelle A Williams; Fiscal Year: 2010....
