Renal Decapsulation in Puerperal Eclampsia

Case of Eclampsia in Which Lumbar Puncture Was Performed

holds out a hope of better results. So in the past few years we have heard much of Bossi's dilator, of thyroid extract, and of saline infusions, and a little of decapsulation of the kidney and of lumbar puncture. It will not, I suppose, be denied that the giving of saline infusions, the employment of Bossi's dilator, and the administration of thyroid extract or of iodide of potassium have all i...

Puerperal Eclampsia

In most handbooks on Midwifery, excepting a few of the more modern, puerperal convulsions are divided into three classes; viz., the hysterical, the epileptic, and the apoplectic. It is difficult to understand why such a classification was ever made. There is only one of these three that has any claim to be considered a distinct disease sui generis; and that is the epileptic form, or puerperal e...

Protection against Fatal Renal Injury Due to Choline Deficiency by Renal Decapsulation

Decapsulation of the left kidney through a lumbar incision immediately prior to placing young rats on a choline-deficient diet afforded a significant degree of protection against animal mortality, compared with that which occurred as a result of the deficiency in the control groups. Decapsulation also was effective in reducing greatly the renal injury which developed in the decapsulated kidneys...

The Physiological Basis for Decapsulation of the Kidney in Eclamptic Anuria

subject, we must admit the general truth of this statement. But the inquiry is being narrowed down. A more correct interpretation has been put upon many of the clinical symptoms of the eclamptic state, and, as a result, treatment has become more rational and less empirical. In this paper I wish to deal entirely with one clinical symptom which is invariably present at some period or other in ecl...

Puerperal Eclampsia