abstract：:Retrospective review of 457 breech deliveries failed to reveal a significant improvement in neonatal mortality and morbidity rates for those delivered by cesarean section vs. vaginal delivery. A slight but insignificant improvement in salvage was found for the 1,000 to 1,500 gram weight category when delivery was by c...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Mann LI,Gallant JM

更新日期：1979-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of stress during labor on the plasma concentration of cortisol, unconjugated estriol, and human chorionic somatomammotropin was studied in 15 healthy primiparous women. According to the method of pain relief the parturients were divided into two groups. One group was given continuous epidural analgesia and ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Maltau JM,Eielsen OV,Stokke KT

更新日期：1979-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred seventy-eight high-risk patients were managed by a comprehensive assessment of the anatomic, biochemical, and functional environment of the fetoplacental unit utilizing predetermined guidelines. Decisions to terminate pregnancy were reserved for patients who demonstrated a positive OCT. Perinatal outcome i...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Barrada MI,Edwards LE,Hakanson EY

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with different types of luteal phase defects were studied with the use of the radioimmunoassay for the beta subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) to determine if unsuspected subclinical pregnancies were more common in a particular type of defect. A type I luteal phase defect is always characterized by...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Cline DL

更新日期：1979-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-one patients with clinical features of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCO) were studied to determine the correlation between biochemical and histologic findings. The biochemical features investigated were the effects of adrenocortical and ovarian suppression by dexamethasone and oral contraceptives (Ovulen) on plas...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Kim MH,Rosenfield RL,Hosseinian AH,Schneir HG

更新日期：1979-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An antiserum to 13,14-dihydro-15-keto-prostaglandin F2alpha (PGF2alphaM) was prepared and a radioimmunoassay evaluated in various reproductive states. PGF2alphaM plasma concentration was 63.6 +/- 10.3 pg/ml (mean +/- SEM) in cycling women. The concentration fluctuated throughout the menstrual cycle and pregnancy, but ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Ghodgaonkar RB,Dubin NH,Blake DA,King TM

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of maternal hyperexcitability on the fetus were studied in 17 baboons. In the period of agitation, induced by stressful stimulus such as exposure to bright light or by clamping of the toe, the mother exhibited an increase in arterial blood pressure and, in some instances, arrhythmia. These changes were acc...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Morishima HO,Yeh MN,James LS

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like other forms of ectopic gestation, cervical pregnancy is a serious complication with potentially life-threatening consequences. Excessive bleeding almost invariably follows an attempt to evacuate this rare ectopic pregnancy. In most reported cases, hysterectomy has been required to control the severe hemorrhage. T...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Nelson RM

更新日期：1979-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A program of office menstrual aspiration was initiated in our institution in 1972. Since that time 1,443 patients have been admitted into the study. These patients were evaluated by age, marital status, gravidity, repeat pregnancy terminations, complications, and detailed tissue analysis as well as contraception utili...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Hale RW,Kobara TY,Sharma SD,Tsuei JJ,Gramlich EP,Nakayama RT

更新日期：1979-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the microbiologic etiology of acute salpingitis, laparoscopy was used in 26 patients to obtain specimens for a variety of microorganisms directly from the fallopian tube. Simultaneous culdocentesis was performed to obtain peritoneal fluid for microbiologic analysis. A variety of microorganisms were isolat...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Sweet RL,Mills J,Hadley KW,Blumenstock E,Schachter J,Robbie MO,Draper DL

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intellectual, visual-motor, and social development of 15 children, 3 to 10 years of age, who received IUT for eythroblastosis fetalis was compared with that of 15 children of similar age who had required only exchange transfusions for the treatment of the same disorder. No over-all differences were found between t...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Knobbe T,Meier P,Wenar C,Cordero L

更新日期：1979-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1,996 direct fetal heart rate (FHR) tracings in labor were analyzed using the first and last 30 minutes of monitoring in order to evaluate individual FHR characteristics as to their ability to predict the fetal status. Comparisons were made between individual FHR characteristics occurring alone ("uncomplica...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Krebs HB,Petres RE,Dunn LJ,Jordaan HV,Segreti A

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this controlled study of betamethasone administration to pregnant rhesus monkeys, using dosages per gram of fetal body weight similar to those reported in several human clinical studies, the most significant fetal pulmonary changes observed were increases in maximum lung volumes. The fact that comparable increases ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Johnson JW,Mitzner W,London WT,Palmer AE,Scott R

更新日期：1979-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies in our laboratory using "in vitro" perfusion have established that glucose transport across the human placenta is a carrier-mediated process. It is not known whether these carriers require the expenditure of metabolic energy to function. In the experiments presented here we demonstrate in the perfused...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Rice PA,Rourke JE,Nesbitt RE Jr

更新日期：1979-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The pre-ejection period (PEP) of the fetal cardiac cycle was studied on 22 chronically instrumented pregnant ewes. The PEP was measured from the onset of the Q wave on fetal electrocardiogram to the onset of the upstroke on the fetal arterial blood pressure curve. Lengthening of the PEP was observed in association wit...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Murata Y,Miyake K,Quilligan EJ

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present investigation was designed to reassess the fractional postcoital test (PCT). Specifically, the study addressed the question of whether the internal cervical mucus sperm count is significantly different from the sperm counts at other cervical levels. By means of standardized methodology, 25 normal postcoita...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Drake TS,Tredway DR,Buchanan GC

更新日期：1979-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of ovine prolactin (oPRL) to the fetal side of human term amnion in vitro is associated with a decrease in membrane permeability to tritiated water (THO). As the concentration of oPRL is increased from 2.5 to 20.0 micrograms per milliliter, permeability is progressively impaired. The addition of a specifi...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Leontic EA,Schruefer JJ,Andreassen B,Pinto H,Tyson JE

更新日期：1979-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1970 Morgan described an operation designed to meet the problem created by scarring and fibrosis resulting from previous operative procedures to the urethra and bladder neck. In the method, a 2 cm wide polypropylene (Marlex) mesh is placed as a broad hammock to elevate and support the urethrovesical junction with l...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Bryans FE

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-five of 49 patients were aborted successfully with 15(S)-15-Me-PGF2alpha after previous techniques to induce abortion had met with failure in 39. Nine patients had spontaneous premature rupture of membranes without onset of labor. The majority of patients aborted within 7 hours following initiation of this metho...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Corson SL,Bolognese RJ

更新日期：1979-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the effect of 17beta-estradiol on lung surfactant production in the fetal rabbit. Pregnant rabbits were administered intramuscularly 75microgram of 17beta-estradiol per day at 25 and 26 days' gestation. Control rabbits were similarly injected with the solvent only. At 27 days' gestation the fetuse...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Khosla SS,Rooney SA

更新日期：1979-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to re-evaluate neonatal condition at birth following elective cesarean section performed with epidural anesthesia and a modified technique of general anesthesia. Two groups of 20 patients were studied. Twenty received epidural anesthesia with 2 per cent lidocaine-carbon dioxide-epinephrine, and...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Fox GS,Smith JB,Namba Y,Johnson RC

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a series of 1,000 newborn infants referred to a regional neonatal center, 32 iatrogenically preterm infants were identified. All had been delivered following elective termination of uncomplicated, apparently term pregnancies, without prior documentation of fetal lung maturity or ultrasonic determination of fetal bi...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Flaksman RJ,Vollman JH,Benfield DG

更新日期：1978-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Among a large series of high-risk patients who had direct electronic monitoring, 330 fetuses presented "variable" decelerations and 598 had no decelerations. Among those with variable decelerations, there were 18 who presented such associated fetal heart rate (FHR) alterations as tachycardia, fixed baseline, and slow ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Cibils LA

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There were 153 oral prostaglandin (PG) E2 inductions attempted in 149 patients. For various reasons nine cases were dropped from the study. Of the remaining 144 induction attempts, 96 were judged successful, with a success rate of 67 per cent. Details of these inductions are presented, including summaries of three pat...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Nelson GH,Bryans CI Jr

更新日期：1978-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma thyroid hormone and cortisol concentrations were measured from early third trimester to delivery in seven pregnant ewes and their fetuses. A surge in fetal plasma triiodothyronine was found during the six days prior to delivery, the mean values rising from less than 30 to 125 ng. per deciliter. During this peri...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Nwosu UC,Kaplan MM,Utiger RD,Delivoria-Papadopulos M

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two 46,XX true hermaphrodites with genital ambiguity since birth and gynecomastia were studied. The production rates of estradiol in these subjects, 77 and 71 microgram per 24 hours, and of estrone, 82 and 136 microgram per 24 hours, were approximately twice those of normal adult men. In one of these subjects the plas...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Aiman J,Hemsell DL,MacDonald PC

更新日期：1978-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolactin (PRL) release in response to surgical stress has been demonstrated in a variety of species. Previous studies in rats indicate this response is blunted or blocked by pretreatment with either glucocorticoids or antihistamines. The present study was designed to investigate this phenomenon in man. Serum PRL leve...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Chapler FK,Sherman BM,Swanson JA

更新日期：1978-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain neurological disorders are particularly liable to occur during pregnancy or may be profoundly influenced by it. Moreover, neurological disorders may influence the management of otherwise uncomplicated obstetric cases. Despite the practical importance of this subject, however, little attention has been devoted ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Aminoff MJ

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are conflicting data in the literature concerning the effects of oral contraceptives on platelet aggregation. We studied 26 healthy women who used oral contraceptives for at least three months. The control group consisted of 25 healthy women of childbearing age, who were receiving no medications. No differences ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Shevde N,Sussman II,Rosner F,Pacholuk V

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A brief review of the evidence for and against the 12-week gestational age limit for abortion by curettage is reported. Existing data suggest that second trimester evacuation abortion is associated with higher morbidity and mortality rates than first trimester suction curettage, but with lower rates than second trime...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Grimes DA,Cates W Jr

更新日期：1978-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) for the induction of labor in pregnancies complicated by IUFD or missed abortion has been demonstrated. Gastrointestinal and pyrexic side effects are frequently observed. The following report describes two patients with documented IUFD who experienced a dramatic pyrexic and card...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Phelan JP,Meguiar RV,Matey D,Newman C

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two studies were conducted to investigate the effect of a progesterone-releasing intrauterine contraceptive device (IUD) on uterine secretion of prostaglandin (PG) F2alpha associated with IUD-induced luteolysis in sheep. In bilaterally ovulating ewes receiving an IUD on day 3 (estrus = day 0) intrauterine release of p...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Murdoch WJ,Lewis GS,Inskeep EK,Tillson SA

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical features of eight immunopathologically proved cases of herpes gestationis (HG) are presented. They are compared with those of anearlier, clinically defined series. The important, features of the disease are identical in the two groups, particularly the worsening with subsequent pregnancies, absence of interve...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Carruthers JA

更新日期：1978-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of primary hypothyroidism associated with postpartum galactorrhea-amenorrhea is reported. The configuration of the sella was compatible with pituitary adenoma, but prolactin dynamics did not support an autonomous secretory state. Replacement therapy with thyroxine led to complete reversal of clinical, radiologi...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Tolis G,Hoyte K,McKenzie JM,Mason B,Robb P

更新日期：1978-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-five patients with histologically proved cervical dysplasia or carcinoma in situ were treated by the carbon dioxide-laser method. The carbon dioxide laser induces cell vaporization by causing intracellular steam combustion stimulated by the emission of a mixture of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and helium. This meth...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Carter R,Krantz KE,Hara GS,Lin F,Masterson BJ,Smith SJ

更新日期：1978-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of fetal breathing, even if episodic in character, may not indicate fetal well being. In a study of fetal lambs with long-term implantation of catheters and electrodes, five of six lambs which died before the onset of labor had terminal episodes of continuous breathing, preceded by 4 1/4 to 45 1/2 hours o...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Chapman RL,Dawes GS,Rurak DW,Wilds PL

更新日期：1978-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic intrauterine hypoxia was induced in third-trimester lamb fetuses by daily embolization of the maternal side of the placenta with nonradioactive microspheres. After delivery at term, the chronically hypoxic fetuses had significantly increased pulmonary artery pressures when compared to nonhypoxic control measur...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Drummond WH,Bissonnette JM

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Responses of the component tissues of the nonpregnant ovine uterus to intravenous administration of norepinephrine were determined with radioactively labeled microspheres under flowmeter guidance. During a mean decrease in uterine conductance to 42 per cent of control, no significant differences in the distribution of...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Griss FC Jr

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Generally there is a tendency to underrate the value of uterine height in the diagnosis of intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR). This fact is probably due to the lack of standard normal values for this measurement. In a group of 298 healthy pregnant women, the 10th, 50th, and 90th percentile were calculated by week ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Belizán JM,Villar J,Nardin JC,Malamud J,De Vicurna LS

更新日期：1978-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In Finland an organized mass screening program covers the total female population. Based on the material (429,832) from a nationwide mass screening registry it was estimated that the female population not subjected to electrocoagulation of the uterine cervix (362,511) had a sixfold risk of frankly invasive carcinoma, ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Kauraniemi T,Räsänen-Virtanen U,Hakama M

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00