abstract：:A randomized controlled study was carried out at three medical centers to compare the efficacy and side effects of ethanol and ritodrine in the treatment of threatened premature labor. One hundred and thirty-five patients judged to be between the twentieth and thirty-sixth week of gestation and presenting with clinic...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Lauersen NH,Merkatz IR,Tejani N,Wilson KH,Roberson A,Mann LI,Fuchs F

更新日期：1977-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the effects of magnesium sulfate (MgSO4) administration in chronically instrumented normotensive and hypertensive pregnant sheep. Animals of 90 to 144 days' gestation were divided in two groups; those with normotensive arterial pressure and those in which renovascular hypertension had been produced. Ou...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Dandavino A,Woods JR Jr,Murayama K,Brinkman CR 3rd,Assali NS

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred randomly selected nulliparous, normotensive women were subjected to the roll-over test between 28 and 32 weeks' gestation. Twenty-five women had a positive test. Thirteen of those 25 women developed pre-eclampsia requiring magnesium sulfate therapy. Eight had transient hypertension during labor requiring n...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Marshall GW,Newman RL

更新日期：1977-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Gynecologic cancer records of 4,238 patients treated between 1956 and 1974 were reviewed. Sixteen patients developed noeplasia in the cervix or vagina 10 or more years following pelvic irradiation. Three patients had squamous carcinoma in situ; the other 13 patients had invasive squamous cancer involving the upper vag...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Pride GL,Buchler DA

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 679 fetal monitoring records were carefully reviewed in order to determine the incidence of occurrence of late and variable deceleration patterns with respect to advancing gestational age. No statistically significant increase in occurrence of these patterns could be detected in gestations that progressed b...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Klapholz H,Friedman EA

更新日期：1977-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical studies to detect changes occurring in the composition of mother's milk from the initiation of proper lactation to weaning were done in a group of 36 postpartum women, volunteers who were either using the conventional contraceptives or taking a low-dose combination pill, a low-dose progestational compound,...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Toddywalla VS,Joshi L,Virkar K

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The source of amniotic fluid prolactin was investigated with the use of amnion, chorion, placenta, and decidual tissue taken from term human pregnancy. Decidua alone of these tissues contained significant quantities of prolactin. The release of decidual prolactin was affected by the presence or absence of oxygen and p...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Riddick DH,Kusmik WF

更新日期：1977-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of unconjugated estriol in maternal vein serum during labor, cord artery serum, and cord vein serum were measured in normal pregnancy and in pregnancy complicated by intrauterine growth retardation. The mean level of unconjugated estriol in maternal vein serum was significantly lower in the intrauterine gro...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Gorwill RH,Sarda IR

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correlation between Goodwin's high-risk score and Apgar score was studied in 266 pregnancies managed with the use of the information from clinical monitoring. The correlation coefficients between Goodwin's score and Apgar scores were -0.3178 for one-minute Apgar scores and -0.2668 for five-minute Apgar scores. Both ar...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Yeh SY,Forsythe A,Lowensohn RI,Hon EH

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ritodrine hydrochloride was administered parenterally to pregnant ewes during spontaneous or oxytocin-induced uterine activity. The effects of ritodrine on the uterus and cardiovasculature were assessed both with and without simultaneous administration of either alpha or beta blockade. Ritodrine was found to be an eff...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Siimes AS,Creasy RK

更新日期：1976-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate the ovarian and adrenal contribution to peripheral plasma concentrations of total testosterone (TTe), indixes of the plasma concentrations of free testosterone (FTeI), free 17 beta-hydroxysteroid androgens (FHSI), and testosterone-binding globulin (TeBG) during the menstrual cycle, women were exam...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Kim MH,Rosenfield RL,Dupon C

更新日期：1976-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This modification of Gustavii's hypothesis recognizes the central role of saline-induced decidual cell necrosis and secondary prostaglandin release in the initiation of myometrial activity. In the absence of significant necrosis in the decidua basalis, passive stretching of the subplacental myometrium is considered to...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Honoré LH

更新日期：1976-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During the period from September, 1974, to January, 1975, we performed 276 deliveries, of which 54% were internally monitored with a spiral type of fetal electrode. Eight of the infants monitored (incidence, 5.4%) developed scalp abscesses. We had had no previous complications associated with the electrodes. An intens...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Winkel CA,Snyder DL,Schlaerth JB

更新日期：1976-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A successful pregnancy in a patient with a 45,X/47,XXX karyotype who had premature menopause is described. Review of the literature revealed an additional 24 cases of fertility in women with gonadal dysgenesis associated with a 45,X chromosomal line. Their reproductive history showed a total of 58 pregnancies. However...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Reyes FI,Koh KS,Faiman C

更新日期：1976-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Placental steroid sulfatase deficiency is an unusual cause of low estriol production during pregnancy. Its importance lies in the differentiation of this disorder from the more ominous fetal defects that result in low estriol levels. Serum free estriol levels were found to be low or absent in a 25-year-old gravida 3, ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Braunstein GD,Zeil FH,Allen A,Van de Velde R,Wade ME

更新日期：1976-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been 203 copper-7 IUD insertions performed in 199 women. The data from 2,230 woman-months of use have been analyzed and compared with other published reports. The copper-7 IUD was an acceptable contraceptive method in regard to effectiveness, continuation, and lack of serious complications. ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Nebel WA,Currie JL,Lassiter RE

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial BPD readings were obtained from 142 normal parturients, with established dates, between 20 to 40 weeks of pregnancy. It is noted that fetal BPD's can be separated into one of three percentile rankings: large (i.e. above the seventy-fifth percentile), average (i.e. twenty-fifth to seventy-fifth percentile), and ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Sabbagha RE,Barton BA,Barton FB,Kingas E,Turner JH

更新日期：1976-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Impairment of umbilical cord blood flow has been associated with periodic fetal heart rate changes termed "variable decelerations." These patterns may be observed after amniotomy. A chronic fetal rhesus monkey preparation has been used to investigate this clinical observation. Loss of amniotic fluid produced variable ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Gabbe SG,Ettinger BB,Freeman RK,Martin CB

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The excess risk of nonfatal myocardial infarction among users of oral contraceptives observed in England and Wales can be explained in terms of the high proportion of smokers in the study population. Among nonsmokers, the relative risk associated with the use of oral contraceptives is estimated to be 2 to 1, which is ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Jain AK

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentrations of immunoglobulins (Ig)A1, and IgA2, IgD, IgE, IgG, and IgM have been determined in cord blood, amniotic fluid, and maternal serum in a group of patients with a history of prematurely ruptured membranes (PRM) prior to the onset of labor and in a control group of patients undergoing normal delivery and w...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Cederqvist LL,Francis LC,Zervoudakis IA,Becker CG,Litwin SD

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Samples of cervical tissue were obtained from women immediately following term delivery from spontaneous labor or oral PGE2-induced labor and from a small nunber of nonpregnant women in the reproductive years undergoing hysterectomy for benign gynecologic disease. The measured strips were placed in a well-oxygenated b...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Conrad JT,Ueland K

更新日期：1976-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-eclampsia is characterized by uteroplacental ischemia. Prostaglandins can alter systemic blood pressure as well as regulate blood flow to the fetoplacental unit. In the present study, levels of prostaglandin E were significantly decreased in placental tissue from pre-eclamptic patients. Prostaglandin F, a potent v...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Demers LM,Gabbe SG

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of fetal activity was undertaken as the first step in a series of physiologic fetal movement studies. A simple, safe, noninvasive, clinically applicable method for studying fetal movement with a tocodynamometer is described. Four basic types of fetal movement have been seen and defined in terms of their durati...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Timor-Tritsch I,Zador I,Hertz RH,Rosen MG

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reproductive performance of 36 women who had been successfully treated for gestational trophoblastic tumors with multiple courses of cytotoxic agents including methotrexate, 6-mercaptopurine, actinomycin D, and 6-azauridine, between 1962 and 1972, has been studied in comparison with 36 patients who had spontaneous...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Walden PA,Bagshawe KD

更新日期：1976-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 2,148 cycles of midcycle oral administration of R 2323 (50 mg. per day on Days 15,16, and 17), the authors recorded a drug-failure pregnancy rate of 5 per cent and an unusually regular cycle length of 28 +/- 2 days. During this trial, endometrial biopsies obtained in the luteal phase were examined by light and el...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Azadian-Boulanger G,Secchi J,Laraque F,Raynaud JP,Sakiz E

更新日期：1976-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral contraceptives are combinations of estrogens and progestogens or, in the case of the mini-pills, progestogens alone. With specific test procedures in laboratory animals or human subjects, it is possible to assign potency evaluations to the components relative to the progestational, estrogenic, or antiestrogenic a...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Edgren RA,Sturtevant FM

更新日期：1976-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-two hirsute women underwent percutaneous adrenal and ovarian vein catheterization to differentiate and localize excessive hormonal output. All studies were done under fluoroscopic control; catheter placement was verified by venography, and blood samples were withdrawn for hormonal analysis. The right ovarian ve...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Wentz AC,White RI Jr,Migeon CJ,Hsu TH,Barnes HV,Jones GS

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progeny of women, whose thyroid function was studied gestationally, had psychological and/or neurologic examinations at 8 months, 4 years and 7 years of age. In more than 100 pregnancies (at least 3 per cent of total pregnancies) hypothyroxinemia occurred and was treated adequately or inadequately. Children were deliv...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Man EB,Serunian SA

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy cases of ectopic pregnancy associated with an IUD comprised 10% of all ectopics in a 9 year period. This increased to 15% in the last 19 months as more IUD's were in use. In two thirds of the ectopics the IUD had been in situ more than 1 year. Unusual bleeding and cramping attributed to the IUD obscured the di...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Hallatt JG

更新日期：1976-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum progesterone was measured by competitive protein-binding assay in 331 cases of normal pregnancy ranging from 6 to 42 weeks. Serial estimations of serum progesterone were performed in nine cases of severe hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, eight cases of twin pregnancy, three cases of twin pregnancy complicated ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Dawood MY

更新日期：1976-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanical properties of the chorioamniotic membranes have been studied by several investigators over the past 100 years. No relationship between membrane strength, as measured by rupture tension, and premature or non-premature rupture of the membranes has been demonstrable. In the present study, several measures ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Artal R,Sokol RJ,Neuman M,Burstein AH,Stojkov J

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amniotic fluid creatinine, percentage of lipid-positive cells, and L/S ratio were determined on 285 samples from normal pregnancies and 222 samples from abnormal pregnancy states (Rh isoimmunization, diabetes, hypertensive disorders, intrauterine growth retardation, and hydramnios). In normal pregnancy the coefficient...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Doran TA,Malone RM,Benzie RJ,Owen VJ,Thompson DW,New ML

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer program for pattern recognition of fetal electroencephalogram has been used to analyze the records of nine fetuses, known to be neurologically abnormal at 1 year of age. In 4,913 10 second epochs of adequate FEEG, Low Voltage Irregular (LVI) accounted for 17.8 per cent, Mixed activity (MIX) for 30.5 per cen...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Chik L,Sokol RJ,Rosen MG,Borgstedt AD

更新日期：1976-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The gonadotropin response to synthetic LH/FSH-releasing hormone (LRH) was found to be suppressed in the second trimester of pregnancy. The basal levels of plasma FSH were very low and no detectable increase occurred after injection of up to 500 mug LRH intravenously. Five of the women were then tested with 25 mug of L...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Jeppsson S,Rannevik G

更新日期：1976-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this series of gonadoblastomas it appeared that the germ cells were the motivating force underlying either tumor proliferation or regression. The ultrastructural morphology confirmed the presence of undifferentiated gonadal cells with active steroid synthesis by the interstitial cells. The Call-Exner-like bodies wh...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Garvin AJ,Pratt-Thomas HR,Spector M,Spicer SS,Williamson HO

更新日期：1976-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Outpatient endometrial aspiration was offered to patients who suspected that they were pregnant, but were within 5 to 21 days after failure of expected menstruation and had a uterus of normal size on pelvic examination. This is a report of 500 consecutive cases treated between September, 1973, and April, 1975. Histolo...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Bendel RP,Williams PP,Butler JC Jr

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-one patients with granulosa-cell tumors and nine patients with Sertoli-Leydig-cell tumors have been treated at the M. D. Anderson Hospital. The most important prognostic finding was the stage of the tumor when first seen. Conservative surgery was utilized in young patients with lesions confined to one ovary. Mor...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Schwartz PE,Smith JP

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of various vasodilators on the uterine vascular bed were investigated in nonpregnant, oophorectomized sheep with chronically implanted flow probes and catheters inserted into branches of the uterine arteries. A 1 mug dose of estradiol-17beta (0.224 muM) produces a maximum uterine blood flow response after ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Resnik R,Killam AP,Barton MD,Battaglia FC,Makowski EL,Meschia G

更新日期：1976-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a widespread recrudescence of venereal disease. The possible reasons for this are discussed. Each disease is then considered from the viewpoints of clinical course, diagnosis, and treatment. Treatment failures are discussed in detail, immunity is covered, and recommendations for the future conclude the presen...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Evans TN

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing evidence that the high prevalence of low-birth-weight (LBW) babies, a characteristic of many poor societies, can be significantly reduced through nutritional intervention programs. In order to increase the efficiency of these programs, pregnant women at risk of delivering LBW babies must be identified...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Lechtig A,Delgado H,Yarbrough C,Habicht JP,Martorell R,Klein RE

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00