Advanced maternal age — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: There is an increased incidence of preeclampsia in patients with pre-existing _____, diabetes, chronic renal disease, and autoimmune disorders

Answer: hypertension

Flashcard 2: Women who are in the _____ period are at particularly high risk of developing myasthenia gravis

Answer: postpartum

Flashcard 3: Gestational diabetes can lead to a placental _____, causing fetal asphyxia, growth restriction, and polycythemia

Answer: vasculopathy

Flashcard 4: What is the most important variable affecting ovarian reserve?_____

Answer: advanced maternal age

Flashcard 5: Preeclampsia typically presents _____ the 20th week of gestation

Answer: after

Flashcard 6: _____ is a blood pressure >140/90 mmHg after the 20th week of gestation with no proteinuria, pre-existing hypertension, nor end-organ damage

Answer: Gestational hypertension

Flashcard 7: Gestational diabetes is a result of increased insulin resistance due to elevated levels of _____ during pregnancy

Answer: human placental lactogen

Flashcard 8: What volume defines oligohydramnios?

Answer: <0.5 L amniotic fluid

Flashcard 9: congenital syphilis

Answer: prenatal exposure to T. pallidum

Extra: in infant: saber shins, saddle nose, mulberry molars, notched incisors

Flashcard 10: combined estrogen/progestin

Answer:

Extra: contraceptionsmokers > 35 y/o, hx DVT, stroke, ER+ cancerin combination prevents ovulation thrombosis