Browsing Research Articles (Obstetrics and Gynaecology) by UP Author "Soma-Pillay, Priya"

Browsing Research Articles (Obstetrics and Gynaecology) by UP Author "Soma-Pillay, Priya"

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  • 2D, 3D, 4D ultrasound in obstetrics : best evidence practice 
    Soma-Pillay, Priya; Lombaard, H.A.D.T. (Hennie) (In House Publications, 2010)
    No abstract available.
  • Agency under constraint : adolescent accounts of pregnancy and motherhood in informal settlements in South Africa 
    Gillespie, Bronwen; Allen, Haddijatou; Pritchard, Matthew; Soma-Pillay, Priya; Balen, Julie; Anumba, Dilly (Taylor and Francis, 2022)
    Progress in adolescent sexual and reproductive health (SRH) remains unequal: adolescent pregnancies are more likely to occur in marginalised communities, or in very poor households. This study aimed to comprehend from ...
  • Barriers to obstetric care among maternal near-misses 
    Soma-Pillay, Priya; Pattinson, Robert Clive (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2016-11)
    BACKGROUND. There are several factors in the healthcare system that may influence a woman’s ability to access appropriate obstetric care. OBJECTIVE. To determine the delays/barriers in providing obstetric care to women who ...
  • Bioethics and self-isolation : what about low-resource settings? 
    Adam, Sumaiya; Lindeque, B. Gerhard; Soma-Pillay, Priya (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2020-05)
    Healthcare workers have both an obligation to their individual patients and a long-recognised public health responsibility. In the context of infectious disease, such as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, ...
  • Cardiac diastolic function after recovery from pre-eclampsia 
    Soma-Pillay, Priya; Louw, M.C.; Adeyemo, A.O.; Makin, J.A.; Pattinson, Robert Clive (Clinics Cardive, 2018-01)
    BACKGROUND : Pre-eclampsia is associated with significant changes to the cardiovascular system during pregnancy. Eccentric and concentric remodelling of the left ventricle occurs, resulting in impaired contractility and ...
  • Cardiac disease in pregnancy : a 4-year audit at Pretoria Academic Hospital 
    Soma-Pillay, Priya; Macdonald, A.P.; Mathivha, T.M.; Bakker, J.L.; Mackintosh, M.O. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2008-07)
    BACKGROUND: Pre-existing medical disease constitutes one of the five major causes of maternal death in South Africa. Increasing numbers of women with heart disease reach adulthood as a result of advances in diagnoses and ...
  • Cardiac disease in pregnancy : when to raise the ‘red flag’ 
    Soma-Pillay, Priya; Anthony, J.; Mandondo, S.D. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2018-11)
    Cardiac disease in pregnancy is an important cause of maternal morbidity and mortality and is the second most common cause of indirect maternal death in South Africa. Although most women with cardiac disease cope well ...
  • The case for the routine use of umbilical cord pH in all deliveries 
    Bhorat, Ismail; Pistorius, Lou; Soma-Pillay, Priya; Smuts, Izelle (In House Publications, 2017)
    Cerebral palsy (CP) cases are some of the primary reasons for litigation of high quantum amounts against obstetricians both in the public and private sector, on the basis of acute intrapartum hypoxia resulting in ...
  • Cerebral palsy and criteria implicating intrapartum hypoxia in neonatal encephalopathy – an obstetric perspective for the South African setting 
    Bhorat, Ismail; Buchmann, E.; Soma-Pillay, Priya; Nicolaou, E.; Pistorius, L.; Smuts, Izelle (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2021-03)
    The science surrounding cerebral palsy (CP) indicates that it is a complex medical condition with multiple contributing variables and factors, and causal pathways are often extremely difficult to delineate. The ...
  • Cerebral palsy and its medicolegal implications in low-resource settings – the need to establish causality and revise criteria to implicate intrapartum hypoxia : a narrative review 
    Bhorat, I.; Buchmann, E.; Soma-Pillay, Priya; Nicolaou, E.; Pistorius, L.; Smuts, Izelle; Velaphi, S. (South African Medical Association, 2023-07)
    The objective of this study was to establish scientific causality and to devise criteria to implicate intrapartum hypoxia in cerebral palsy (CP) in low-resource settings, where there is potential for an increase in damaging ...
  • Challenges and controversies in prenatal genetic screening in the South African context 
    Bhorat, Ismail; Chauke, Lawrence; Coetzee, Edward; Geerts, Lut; Lombaard, Hennie; Nicolaou, Ermos; Pistorius, Lou; Soma-Pillay, Priya (In House Publications, 2018)
    Prenatal genetic screening is an integral part of general antenatal care and is regarded as standard of care for all pregnant women. All pregnant women < 20 weeks gestation should be offered some form of genetic screening ...
  • Consensus statement on the potential implementation of the sFlt-1/PlGF ratio in women with suspected pre-eclampsia 
    Matjila, M.; Anthony, J.; Vatish, M.; Moodley, J.; Bhorat, Ismail; Nicolaou, E.; Soma-Pillay, Priya; Monokoane, S.; Lombaard, H.; Chauke, L.; Pillay, T.; Mokaba, E. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2018-11)
    Pre-eclampsia is one of the leading causes of maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity worldwide, and places a significant burden on the South African (SA) healthcare system. The soluble fms-like tyrosince kinase ...
  • Coronavirus and pregnancy : the challenges of the 21(st) Century : a review 
    Adam, Sumaiya; Pheiffer, Carmen; Dias, Stephanie; Hlongwane, T.M.A.G. (Tsakane); Vannevel, Valerie; Soma-Pillay, Priya; Abdullah, Fareed (Frontiers Media SA, 2022-07-13)
    Despite many advances in medicine we are still faced with emerging pathogens. Pregnant women have been disproportionately affected by previous coronavirus outbreaks. The COVID-19 pandemic has not affected pregnant women ...
  • COVID-19 and the cardiovascular system in pregnancy 
    Herrey, Anna S.; Osman, Ayesha; Soma-Pillay, Priya; Sliwa, Karen; Ntusi, Ntobeko A.B. (South African Heart Association, 2020-11)
    Pregnancy and coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) share several common features which makes differentiation between the 2 difficult. Both are multisystem disorders, may present with breathlessness, are associated with ...
  • Decreased severity of disease during the first global Omicron variant COVID-19 outbreak in a large hospital in Tshwane, South Africa 
    Abdullah, Fareed; Myers, J.; Basu, Debashis; Tintinger, Gregory; Ueckermann, Veronica; Mathebula, M.; Ramlall, R.; Spoor, S.; De Villiers, T.; Van der Walt, Z.; Cloete, Jeane; Soma-Pillay, Priya; Rheeder, Paul; Paruk, Fathima; Engelbrecht, Adel; Lalloo, Vidya; Myburg, M.; Kistan, J.; Van Hougenhouck-Tulleken, W.G. (Wesley); Boswell, Michael T.; Gray, G.; Welch, R.; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen; Jassat, W. (Elsevier, 2022-03)
    INTRODUCTION : The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) first reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019 is a global pandemic that is threatening the health and wellbeing of people worldwide. To date there have been more ...
  • Early detection of pre-eclampsia 
    Soma-Pillay, Priya; Macdonald, P. (In House Publications, 2016)
    Pre-eclampsia is a major cause of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. The current recommended screening approach is to identify risk factors from maternal history and demographic characteristics. Blood pressure ...
  • The effect of COVID-19 on maternal newborn and child health (MNCH) services in Bangladesh, Nigeria and South Africa : call for a contextualised pandemic response in LMICs 
    Ahmed, Tanvir; Rahman, Ahmed Ehsanur; Amole, Taiwo Gboluwaga; Galadanci, Hadiza; Matjila, Mushi; Soma-Pillay, Priya; Gillespie, Bronwen M.; El Arifeen, Shams; Anumba, Dilly O. C. (BMC, 2021-03-15)
    Global response to COVID-19 pandemic has inadvertently undermined the achievement of existing public health priorities and laregely overlooked local context. Recent evidence suggests that this will cause additional ...
  • The effect of pre-eclampsia on retinal microvascular caliber at delivery and post-partum 
    Soma-Pillay, Priya; Pillay, R.; Wong, T.Y.; Makin, J.D. (Jennifer Dianne); Pattinson, Robert Clive (Sage, 2018-09)
    BACKGROUND : The retinal microcirculation provides a unique view of microvessel structure by means of non-invasive, retinal image analysis. The aim of the study was to compare the retinal vessel caliber at delivery and ...
  • Effect of SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnancy on maternal and neonatal outcomes in Africa: an AFREhealth call for evidence through multicountry research collaboration 
    Nachega, Jean B.; Sam-Agudu, Nadia A.; Budhram, Samantha; Taha, Taha E.; Vannevel, Valerie; Soma-Pillay, Priya; Ishoso, Daniel Katuashi; Pipo, Michel Tshiasuma; Bongo-Pasi Nswe, Christian; Ditekemena, John; Ayele, Birhanu T.; Machekano, Rhoderick N.; Gachuno, Onesmus W.; Kinuthia, John; Mwongeli, Nancy; Sekikubo, Musa; Musoke, Philippa; Agbeno, Evans Kofi; Umar, Lawal W.; Ntakwinja, Mukanire; Mukwege, Denis M.; Smith, Emily R.; Mills, Eduard J.; Otshudiema, John Otokoye; Mbala-Kingebeni, Placide; Kayembe, Jean-Marie N.; Landu, Don Jethro Mavungu; Tamfum, Jean-Jacques Muyembe; Zumla, Alimuddin; Langenegger, Eduard J.; Mofenson, Lynne M. (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2021-02)
    In the African context, there is a paucity of data on SARS-CoV-2 infection and associated COVID-19 in pregnancy. Given the endemicity of infections such as malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis (TB) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), ...
  • The effect of the first wave of Covid-19 on use of maternal and reproductive health services and maternal deaths in South Africa 
    Pattinson, Robert Clive; Fawcus, S.; Gebhardt, S.; Niit, R.; Soma-Pillay, Priya; Moodley, J. (In House Publications, 2020-12)
    AIM : To monitor the impact of the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic on use of maternal and reproductive health services, and maternal mortality. METHOD : Data from the District Health Information System (DHIS) was used ...