ReviewActa obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica2011
Use of uterine electromyography to diagnose term and preterm labor.
Review in Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 23 papers.
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Uterine Abdominal Electromyography Measurements Before and After Progesterone Treatments for Preterm Labor
Vaginal Progesterone for Prevention of Preterm Birth After an Episode of Preterm Labor
Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 105 citations in OpenAlex.
- Comparison of Oxytocin vs. Carbetocin Uterotonic Activity after Caesarean Delivery Assessed by Electrohysterography: A Randomised Trial.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Trial
- Electrohysterography for Uterine Contractility Monitoring: Measurement Principles, Clinical Evidence, and Reporting Recommendations.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Analysis of electrohysterogram signals for predicting obstetric outcome using machine learning methods: a scoping review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Article
- Uterine electromyography as a new predictor of extremely preterm birth: a multifactorial model integrating clinical and bioelectrical parameters.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- The predictive role of uterine electromyography in delivery before 28 weeks of gestation after transvaginal cervical cerclage.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Diagnostic Efficacy of Cervical Elastography in Predicting Spontaneous Preterm Birth in Pregnancies with Threatened Preterm Labor.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Characteristics of phase synchronization in electrohysterography and tocodynamometry for preterm birth prediction.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Noninvasive electromyometrial imaging of human uterine maturation during term labor.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Association between Increased Uterine Activity, as Recorded Noninvasively from the Anterior Abdominal Wall at 34 Weeks' Gestation, and Preterm Birth.MedLife clinics · 2022Article
- Review and Study of Uterine Bioelectrical Waveforms and Vector Analysis to Identify Electrical and Mechanosensitive Transduction Control Mechanisms During Labor in Pregnant Patients.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2021Review
- Bursting Rate Variability.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- Accuracy of electromyometrial imaging of uterine contractions in clinical environment.Computers in biology and medicine · 2020Article
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- Tocolysis: Present and future treatment options.Seminars in perinatology · 2017Review
- Vaginal electrohysterography: the design and preliminary evaluation of a novel device for uterine contraction monitoring in an ovine model (.).The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians · 2016Article
- The Icelandic 16-electrode electrohysterogram database.Scientific data · 2015Article
- Automatic identification of motion artifacts in EHG recording for robust analysis of uterine contractions.Computational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2014Article
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- A blueprint for the prevention of preterm birth: vaginal progesterone in women with a short cervix.Journal of perinatal medicine · 2013Review
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8 authors at 1 institution in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Current methodologies to assess the process of labor, such as tocodynamometry or intrauterine pressure catheters, fetal fibronectin, cervical length measurement and digital cervical examination, have several major drawbacks. They only measure the onset of labor indirectly and do not detect cellular changes characteristic of true labor. Consequently, their predictive values for term or preterm delivery are poor. Uterine contractions are a result of the electrical activity within the myometrium. Measurement of uterine electromyography (EMG) has been shown to detect contractions as accurately as the currently used methods. In addition, changes in cell excitability and coupling required for effective contractions that lead to delivery are reflected in changes of several EMG parameters. Use of uterine EMG can help to identify patients in true labor better than any other method presently employed in the clinic.
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