abstract：:A series of 49 patients weighing over 200 pounds is described, and a technique essential to successful care of obese patients is given. The ability to determine the intra-abdominal location of the Verres needle in order to create a physoperitoneum is the most important consideration. ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Loffer FD,Pent D

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective, randomized, double-blind evaluation of Loridine-Keflex prophylaxis in a homogeneous group of 32 patients undergoing sequential cervical conization and vaginal hysterectomy is reported. There was no infectious or febrile morbidity in the 18 oatuebts receuvubg abtubuitucs, Morbidity occurred in six of 14 ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Forney JP,Morrow CP,Townsend DE,Disaia PJ

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 40 year period 374 patients with infiltrative carcinoma of the vulva were evaluated. Some form of radical surgery was the treatment chosen for 278 patients. The absolute 5 year survival rates for all clinical stages treated with some form of radical surgery was 66.8 per cent with a corrected rate of 73.9 per ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Morley GW

更新日期：1976-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen women, six of whom were using oral contraceptive agents, between the ages of 23 and 34 years, free from illness, and without a previous clinical history of menstrual abnormality, were studied with chronobiological methods for circadian (about 24 hour) patterns of metal and creatinine excretinine excretion. Ci...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Weinmann S,Dawson EB,Smolensky MH,Weisberg RF,Lane B,Bryan S

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A tentative classification of obstetrical and gynecological devices, proposed by the Panel on Review of Obstetrical and Gynecological Devices of the Bureau of Medical Devices and Diagnostic Products of the Food and Drug Administration, is presented. The devices are classified, for regulatory purposes, under 3 genera...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Thompson HE,Borders JP,Dickey RP,Freilich TH,Friedman EA,Kerr CH,Sikov MR

更新日期：1976-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The confluence of maternal and fetal tissues to form the placenta causes a wide variety of alterations in cells of both origins. Three closely related primate species were studied for similarities and differences in the interrelationships formed during various stages of placental development in the areas of implantati...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Ramsey EM,Houston ML,Harris JW

更新日期：1976-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:All but three of the 270 women surviving eclampsia at the Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital in the period 1931 through 1951 were traced to 1973-74. Seventy-six have died and 13 were not re-examined. In white women having eclampsia in the first pregnancy carried to viability the remote mortality rate is not increased o...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Chesley LC,Annitto JE,Cosgrove RA

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compares fetal corticoid response from conventional dose (12.0 mg) intramuscular betamethasone to large dose (1,000 mg) intravenous cortisol administered to women in premature labor for acceleration of fetal lung maturity. To compare these two regimens, 14 women selected at random were treated in groups of ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Whitt GG,Buster JE,Killam AP,Scragg WH

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous contractions of circular and longitudal muscle of the ampulla and isthmus of human and rabbit Fallopian tubes were recorded isometrically. Addition of K+ to tissue in K+-free medium always caused immediate inhibition of spontaneous contractility. K+-induced inhibition was prevented by ouabain and reversed ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Johns A,Molnar S,Paton DM

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen cases of spontaneous second-trimester abortion associated with the intrauterine device (IUD) are reviewed and compared to 30 cases of spontaneous second-trimester abortion not associated with the IUD. Fifteen of the IUD's were Dalkon shields and four were Lippes loops. 16 of the 19 IUD-associated abortions be...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Eisinger SH

更新日期：1976-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive and specific double antibody radioimmunoassay for gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) has been developed for measurement in ethanol extracts of human plasma. Iodinated hormone was prepared with the use of the chloramine-T method, and antibodies were developed in rabbits over a six-month period with a GnR...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Rosenblum NG,Schlaff S

更新日期：1976-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammography is presented for the primarily nonradiologic audience. A brief historical review calls attention to some of the milestones in mammography and how it has changed. Xerororadiography is discussed, as it is one of the newer developments and is rapidly gaining broad acceptance in the United States. Clinical app...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Wolfe JN

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survival data on 36 patients with clear-cell adenocarcinomas are reported: seven with vaginal lesions and 29 with cervical lesions. Although the tumor responds to present treatment modalities, it tends to be associated with early lymph node involvement, thus making early diagnosis essential. Radiation as a primary the...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Noller KL,Decker DG,Symmonds RE,Dockerty MB,Kurland LT

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Right and left ventricular outputs were measured continuously in fetal lambs in utero for 2 to 21 days after implantation of electromagnetic flow tranducers around the main pulmonary trunk and ascending aorta. Surface pacing electrodes were implanted on the left and right atria. The intact cervical vagus nerve was sti...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Rudolph AM,Heymann MA

更新日期：1976-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical conization was perfromed on 756 patients at the University of Kentucky Medical Center from July 1, 1964, to January 1, 1973. Sixty-six patients were pregnant at the time of conization. Eighty-six per cent of patients with cytologic findings of carcinoma in situ had histologic verification of carcinoma in situ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： van Nagell JR Jr,Parker JC Jr,Hicks LP,Conrad R,England G

更新日期：1976-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two infants, who presented at birth with isoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura, are the basis for this report. The problems confronting the physician in treating an affected infant, as well as in the management of subsequent pregnancies after an infant with isoimmunization has been delivered, are discussed. In view of th...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Sitarz AL,Driscoll JM Jr,Wolff JA

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the "double PG impact" (DPGI) technique in 100 sedated first- and second-trimester volunteers, pregnancy was terminated successfully in 99 with a total extraovular PGF2alpha dose of 19.0 +/- 1.5 mg. in 16.9 +/- 0.9 hours. Two thirds of the patients received only the initial dose of 11.6 +/- 0.5 mg. of PG and abor...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Csapo AI,Herczeg J,Pulkkinen M,Kaihola HL,Zoltan I,Csillag M,Mocsary P

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the merits of using psychometric testing as a predictive adjunct to counseling patients in the choice of a contraceptive method, 134 family-planning patients using an oral contraceptive for one year or longer completed the Neuroticism Scale Questionnaire. Clinic records of these patients were examined t...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Brooks GG,Butcalis MR

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of carbohydrate metabolism was done with 56 "normal" women who were 4 to 11 weeks post partum. Each had a 3 hour oral glucose tolerance test performed before and after 6 months of using an intrauterine contraceptive device (IUCD). The results showed only slight changes in blood glucose and plasma ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Spellacy WN,Buhi WC,Birk SA

更新日期：1975-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum prolactin was measured simultaneously by a homologous radioimmunoassay in 92 parturients and their offspring at term, and in maternal serum and amniotic fluid during various stages of normal pregnancy. Serum levels of 208 +/- 8 ng. per millilter were found in maternal blood; the corresponding levels in the cord ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Schenker JG,Ben-David M,Polishuk WZ

更新日期：1975-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-agent chemotherapy of advanced and recurrent squamous carcinoma of the female genital tract has been largely ineffective. Combination-drug therapy which has augmented the efficacy of chemotherapy in numerous solid and nonsolid human tumors is usually attended by a degree of toxicity that has discouraged its use...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Forney JP,Morrow CP,DiSaia PJ,Futoran RJ

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repeated nutritional assessments were made on 118 low-income women who registered at an urban hospital clinic prior to the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy and then on 122 comparable women who were provided with protein-mineral supplementation. Demographic and background information were obtained. Medical assessments w...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Osofsky HJ

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum progesterone was assayed by the competitive protein-binding technique in 20 cases of gestational choriocarcinoma and one case of nongestational choriocarcinoma. Serum human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) was simultaneously measured from the same blood samples by the hemagglutination-inhibition technique. Serum pro...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Dawood MY

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of single doses of 60Co whole-body irradiation were studied in about 600 inbred primiparous Swiss-Webster mice on gestational day 9, 10, 11, or 12. The embryos and their placentas were weighted from day 13 to 18. A reference model surveyed the response of the conceptus to varying doses. A significant reduc...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Philippe JV

更新日期：1975-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The obstetric events leading to the birth of infants who developed respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) were evaluated. In a retrospective study of 100 consecutive cases it was determined that untimely or unwarranted physician intervention in the pregnancy was responsible for 15 per cent of cases and possibly responsib...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Goldenberg RL,Nelson K

更新日期：1975-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1955 standardized treatment applied uniformly to all cases of eclampsia at Parkland Memorial Hospital has consisted of (1) magnesium sulfate intravenously and intramuscularly to control convulsions, (2) intravenous hydralazine intermittently to lower diastolic blood pressure when it exceeded 110 mm. Hg, and (3) ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Pritchard JA,Pritchard SA

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of maternal amino acids, proteins, and certain other factors to fetal development (weight and cranial volume at birth and mental and motor scores at 8 months of age) was investigated in 129 gravidas. Maternal prepregnancy weight was significantly related to birth weight and cranial volume in the newbo...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Moghissi KS,Churchill JA,Kurrie D

更新日期：1975-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The conversion of androstenedione to estrone in various tissues of 13 human fetuses ranging from 9 to 40 weeks of gestation was measured by a double isotope method in vitro. The data revealed differences in aromatization between cerebrum and hypothalamus. For hypothalamic tissue the conversion rate ranged between 0.01...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Schindler AE

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue deficiency of folic acid, as measured by a red cell folate level below 150 ng. per milliliter, was present in 16 per cent of 110 sequential pregnant women at the time of their first prenatal visit to a municipal clinic. A further 14 per cent of subjects had red cell folate levels in the range "suggestive but no...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Herbert V,Colman N,Spivack M,Ocasio E,Ghanta V,Kimmel K,Brenner L,Freundlich J,Scott J

更新日期：1975-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Much has been written about the need for help for the overworked obstetrician. Two obstetricians delivering over 500 babies annuallay had insufficient time for their gynecology practice. Two nurse-midwives were employed and in the first year they delivered 61 per cent of those patients who delivered vaginally. All nor...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Gatewood TS,Stewart RB

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mid-trimester abortion was successfully induced in 70 of 71 patients by administration of vaginal PGE2 suppositories. The one patient who failed to abort with this method was pregnant in the blind horn of a duplex uterus. The mean abortion time for the successful inductions was 11.88 hours. Multiparous patients aborte...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Lauersen NH,Secher NJ,Wilson KH

更新日期：1975-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma levels of estrogen were measured daily by radioimmunoassay for 28 consecutive days in 12 healthy euthyroid women and 15 thyrotoxic women (10 with hypomenorrhea and 5 with amenorrhea) before commencement of therapy (except in one case) in an effort to increase understanding of the relationship between the thyroi...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Akande EO

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystine animopeptidase (CAP) and leucine aminopeptidase (LAP) in choriocarcinoma cells grown in culture were assayed and characterized electrophoretically. The specific activity of CAP in choriocarcinoma was about 1.5-fold greater than the specific activity of term placenta. The extract of choriocarcinoma contained an...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Ota T,Chen CH,Robinson JC

更新日期：1975-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The first reported measurement of plasma renin and aldosterone in toxemia with an abdominal pregnancy is presented. In contrast to toxemia where plasma renin and aldosterone are either normal or low, extraordinarily high levels of both were found in this patient which returned to normal after delivery. The role of ext...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Baehler RW,Copeland WE,Stein JH,Ferris TF

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of fibrous structures can be demonstrated in midcycle cervical mucus: (1) long, thick fibers that vary in diameter from 0.5 to 5 mum and run parallel to each other, and (2) microfibrils that vary in diameter from 500 to 1,500 A and form bundles or networks. The spaces in such networks usually measure from 8...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Zaneveld LJ,Tauber PF,Port C,Propping D,Schumacher GF

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of actinomycin D on estrogen-induced uterine blood flow was studied in four nonpregnant, oophorectomized sheep, utilizing electromagnetic flow probes chronically implanted around the uterine arteris. Two hours after the intravenous injection of 1 mug of estradiol-17beta per kilogram of body weight, incorpor...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Resnik R,Battaglia FC,Makowski EL,Meschia G

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspiration curettage proved acceptable to patients and medical staff when incorporated into a busy outpatient practice. The diagnostic reliability of curettings obtained was shown to be 93.5 per cent accurate. In all patients where mucus only is obtained, where symptoms persist or recur, or when aspiration curettage i...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Liu DT,Melville HA,Measday B,Melcher D

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) during pregnancy requires concern for both fetal and maternal morbidity and death. A review of 14 pregnancies revealed significant maternal morbidity but no maternal deaths. The perinatal mortally was21 per cent. Current recommendations for management include:...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Laros RK,Sweet RL

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum vitamin B12 level falls progressively during pregnancy, when measured either by microbiologic assay or by a radioisotope dilution technique. The concentration of the vitamin assayed by radioisotope dilution was consistently higher than the value obtained by microbiologic assay. This discrepancy was greatest ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Green R,Colman N,Metz J

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly equivocal results, regarding procedures for the prenatal detection of fetal sexls found in the endocervix, are reported in the literature dating from 1971. The far-reaching genetic and obstetric implications of such procedures led us to investigate endocervical smears from 36 patients (taken during all three t...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Rhine SA,Cain JL,Cleary RE,Palmer CG,Thompson JF

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00