The effect of pregnancy on the renal function of patients with essential hypertension or chronic glomerulonephritis has been the object of the investigation to be reported here. The study has involved the application of renal clearance methods to a group of patients, during their pregnancies and repeatedly during the 1 to 4 years after their delivery. In 3 patients, the series of records includ...

The effect of pregnancy on the renal function of patients with essential hypertension or chronic glomerulonephritis has been the object of the investigation to be reported here. The study has involved the application of renal clearance methods to a group of patients, during their pregnancies and repeatedly during the 1 to 4 years after their delivery. In 3 patients, the series of records includ...

A method is described for the quantitative extraction of posterior pituitary antidiuretic substance from blood with which it has been mixed in vitro and in vivo for experimental purposes. With this procedure, it is found that a similarly extractable active substance may be detected as a normal constituent of dog and human blood. The data obtained from the blood of normal pregnancies and several...

For the etiological study of pregnancy toxemia along our line, Kanno et al.1) and Kanno2) extracted the components from placentas, once de hydrated with alcohol, by boiling with water. However, their preliminary treatment of placentas and manner of extraction both do not appear ap propriate to obtain the substances for the aim of biological examination, because the natural highly-associated sta...

The specifics of the diet (available at tinyurl.com/brewer diet) were compiled by Dr. Tom Brewer, an obstetrician, after years of studying research on the effects of nutrition in pregnancy. He lived to see his philosophy used to prevent or treat various complications of pregnancy, including pregnancyinduced hypertension, pathological edema, eclampsia (toxemia), pre-eclampsia, HELLP syndrome, pr...

The specifics of the diet (available at tinyurl.com/brewer diet) were compiled by Dr. Tom Brewer, an obstetrician, after years of studying research on the effects of nutrition in pregnancy. He lived to see his philosophy used to prevent or treat various complications of pregnancy, including pregnancyinduced hypertension, pathological edema, eclampsia (toxemia), pre-eclampsia, HELLP syndrome, pr...

Pregnancy related acute kidney injury (PRAKI) patients that underwent hemodialysis (HD) between May 2007 and April 2015 were studied with specific reference to clinical features, laboratory values, duration of pregnancy at the diagnosis of acute kidney injury and outcome. It involved 38 patients aged between 15 and 30 years. The main clinical features were fever, edema and oliguria. The leading...