A comparison of techniques for determining prenatal sex from liquor amnii.

On the Relation of the Vomiting of Pregnancy and the Quantity of the Liquor Amnii

able to retain food of any sort for more than half an hour. This state of things, only slightly relieved by medical treatment, continued up to the time of her confinement. On making an examination, the os was found very slightly dilated, the head presenting, but no trace of the usual bag of liquor amnii. On asking the nurse when the waters had come away, she asserted there had been no discharge...

STUDY OF pH VALUE, CREATININE CONTENT AND ALRALINE PHOSPHATASE LEVEL OF LIQUOR AMNII IN FOETAL DISTRESS*

It is very difficult to diagnose foetal distress in time. various investigations have been suggested from time to time for determination of intrauterine foetal status. In recent ;years amnioscopic examination to see the physical character of liquor amnii is extensively practised. Saling's (1965) micro-sampling of foetal scalp blood and study of acid-base balance of the 'Same have also raised th...

Antenatal diagnosis of trisomy 13 with unexpected increase in alpha-feto protein.

A 24-year-old woman who had previously given birth to an infant with Down's syndrome was shown by chromosomal analysis of the liquor amnii to be carrying an infant with trisomy D. Routine examination of serum and liquor alpha-feto protein (AFP) in the antenatal period showed unexpected high levels of both, consistent with a neural tube defect. The fetus, however, did not have evidence of a neur...

Failure to detect Rh-substance in liquor amnii.

Hydramnios; and the Source of the Liquor Amnii

liquor amnii is derived. This is no new subject of debate. An extended account of the various views regarding it was given by Martin Schurig in his Evibryologia Historico-medica in 1732. Ere that date it had already been discussed whether the fluid was of maternal or foetal origin, and, in the latter case, whether it was produced by the kidneys, the skin, the brain, the eyes, the mouth, or the ...