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Some aspects of habitual abortion
Department
of Reviews and Abstracts Selected Abstracts Abortion
Tietze,
Christopher:
Abortion
as a Cause of Death, Am.
J. Pub.
Health
38:
No.
10, Oct.,
1945. The author presents a comparative study of mortality from abortion which shows a striking decline of such deaths in the years 1927 to 1945. The drop in mortality rate in septic abortion has been much faster than that with nonseptic abortion; this supports the view that increased efficiency of treatment of infections with chemotherapy and antibiotics is reflecting itself in this field. This presentation also offers data showing regional and racial differences in these mortality rates. In general, mortality from abortion has been higher in the Negro than in the white population. It is interesting to note that among white women mortality from abortion is lowest in New England, the Middle Atlantic States, and on the Pacific Coast, Ijut does not vary much according to the size of the community. This paper concludes with a presentation of comparative international abortion S. B.&JSBERG. mortality rates.
Delfs, E., and Jones, G. E. Seegar: 809,
Sept.,
Some
Aspects
of Habitual
Abortion,
South.
M.
J. 41:
1948.
Habitual abortion is the term reserved for the patient who has suffered three consecutive, spontaneous abortions. The incidence of habitual abortion is about 0.4 per cent of all pregnancies. The most common etiologic factor is hypothyroidism, having been encountered in 72 per cent of the 39 patients with habitual abortion and was the sole factor in 44 per cent. Pregnandiol excretion values were below normal in 28 per cent. Low chorionic gonadotropin excretion was found in six patients, all of whom aborted. Specific treatment was administered on the basis of laboratory diagnosis, thyroid being given to the hypothyroid; progesterone, to those with low pregnandiol excretion. Chorionic gonadotropin was withheld from those showing a low excretion of this hormone because it is believed that this indicates a morbid or dead fetus. Successful termination of the pregnancy occurred in 67.4 per cent of 33 patients studied, whereas the expectation of spontaneous recovery in this group is something below 27 per cent. WILLIAI~ BICKERS.
Cancer, Malignancies Schtirbu, am.
Aires, biopsy
Isaac: 6: 201-210,
Colpocytology May,
in the Diagnosis
of Uterine
Cancer,
Obst.
y ginec.
latino-
1948.
The author, reporting from gives an analysis of his method for the detection
the Gynecology experiences with of early carcinoma 813
Service at Rawson the Papanicolaou of the genital
Hospital method tract in
in Buenos in the pre314 patients.
of Reviews and Abstracts Selected Abstracts Abortion
Tietze,
Christopher:
Abortion
as a Cause of Death, Am.
J. Pub.
Health
38:
No.
10, Oct.,
1945. The author presents a comparative study of mortality from abortion which shows a striking decline of such deaths in the years 1927 to 1945. The drop in mortality rate in septic abortion has been much faster than that with nonseptic abortion; this supports the view that increased efficiency of treatment of infections with chemotherapy and antibiotics is reflecting itself in this field. This presentation also offers data showing regional and racial differences in these mortality rates. In general, mortality from abortion has been higher in the Negro than in the white population. It is interesting to note that among white women mortality from abortion is lowest in New England, the Middle Atlantic States, and on the Pacific Coast, Ijut does not vary much according to the size of the community. This paper concludes with a presentation of comparative international abortion S. B.&JSBERG. mortality rates.
Delfs, E., and Jones, G. E. Seegar: 809,
Sept.,
Some
Aspects
of Habitual
Abortion,
South.
M.
J. 41:
1948.
Habitual abortion is the term reserved for the patient who has suffered three consecutive, spontaneous abortions. The incidence of habitual abortion is about 0.4 per cent of all pregnancies. The most common etiologic factor is hypothyroidism, having been encountered in 72 per cent of the 39 patients with habitual abortion and was the sole factor in 44 per cent. Pregnandiol excretion values were below normal in 28 per cent. Low chorionic gonadotropin excretion was found in six patients, all of whom aborted. Specific treatment was administered on the basis of laboratory diagnosis, thyroid being given to the hypothyroid; progesterone, to those with low pregnandiol excretion. Chorionic gonadotropin was withheld from those showing a low excretion of this hormone because it is believed that this indicates a morbid or dead fetus. Successful termination of the pregnancy occurred in 67.4 per cent of 33 patients studied, whereas the expectation of spontaneous recovery in this group is something below 27 per cent. WILLIAI~ BICKERS.
Cancer, Malignancies Schtirbu, am.
Aires, biopsy
Isaac: 6: 201-210,
Colpocytology May,
in the Diagnosis
of Uterine
Cancer,
Obst.
y ginec.
latino-
1948.
The author, reporting from gives an analysis of his method for the detection
the Gynecology experiences with of early carcinoma 813
Service at Rawson the Papanicolaou of the genital
Hospital method tract in
in Buenos in the pre314 patients.