The toxemia characteristic of upper gastrointestinal tract obstruction may be produced by temporary obstruction of the pylorus. This procedure affords an opportunity for studying the toxemia in the absence of mechanical factors, operative risk, and infection. Animals which spontaneously recover from the toxemia may show a return of the blood chloride to normal when only distilled water is given...

Mcllroy, D.B.E., LL.D., M.D., D.Sc., F.C.O.G., M.R.C.P. 1936. Edward Arnold and Company, London. Pp. xi plus 355. Illustrated. Price, 14s. Although any book by Dame Louise Mcllroy would command attention, this one, which is an amplification of her Ingleby Lectures of 1934, is so important that it should be^ read and re-read by all who are engaged in the practice of obstetrics. If proof of this ...

Assessment of the status of amniotic fluid phospholipids (qualitative and semi-quantitative) has become important in determining fetal lung maturity. In uncomplicated pregnancies, it has been documented that the ratio of lecithin to sphingomyelin (L/S ratio), with respect to pediatric gestational age, is a reliable predictor of maturity. In complicated pregnancies (e.g., toxemia, diabetes melli...

Introduction Our study objective was to analyze the optimum conditions for pregnancy in kidney transplanted women. For that, we conducted a retrospective study was from 1992 to April 2011 about 17 pregnancies in 12 kidney transplanted patients followed in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Organ Transplant Unit of the Military Hospital of Tunis. Methods We studied nephrological p...

The aim of this paper is to establish the exact incidence of risk in delivery as related to perinatal mortality rate. The entire 1976 Italian population was statistically sampled (latest data available), specifically enucleating the sanitary data reported in 1976 by ISTAT (National Institute of Statistics) for the various regions of Italy. Furthermore, the importance of preventive Medicine in r...