Pituitrin Therapy in Hydronephrosis

Prophylactic Antimicrobial Therapy in Children with Hydronephrosis

Intravenous Pituitrin

an almost moribund condition, I used intravenous injections of quinine bihydrochloride grs. 10 in 10 c.c. of normal saline with 10 minims of adrenalin chloride solution added. The injections were given very slowly at the rate of 1 c.c. per minute. In several other cases associated with collapse I used pituitrin 1 c.c. in 5 c.c. of normal saline, given slowly at the rate of about 2 c.c. per minu...

Intravenous Pituitrin

To the Editor, "The Indian Medicai, GazETTE." Sir,?In your issue for March 1925, Dr. S. Serhachar writes that as a result of a hypodermic injection of 1 c.c. of pituitrin in a puerperal patient, the patient had some unpleasant symptoms, such as intense and sudden pain of a stabbing character in the right side of the chest and back, orthopncea, paleness of face and slowing of pulse. He attribute...

Hydronephrosis

Hydronephrosis means dilation of the pelvis of the kidney by urine which has accumulated, because of obstruction of the urinary tract at some point distal to the pelvis, most commonly the pelvi-ureteral junction. If the obstruction be at a lower level, the ureter becomes dilated first, and the kidney is involved later. Occasionally the obstruction is confined to one or more of the minor calyces...

Changing trends in characteristics of infantile hydronephrosis

  Background : Hydronephrosis (HN) or calycial dilatation is the most common prenatal urologic abnormality. The aim of this study was to identify the possible changes in demographic and clinical manifestations of infantile HN in previously and recently diagnosed patients.   Methods : 193 children with infantile HN admitted to Ali-asghar Children's Hospital in two different periods (group 1 1997...