Background. Abdominal pain during pregnancy has a broad differential diagnosis which includes spontaneous adrenal hemorrhage (SAH). There is scant literature available on optimal mode of delivery in stable patients. Cases. Patient 1 was a 35-year-old nullipara who presented at 36 weeks of gestation with left flank pain. Patient 2 was a 27-year-old multipara at 38 weeks who presented with left u...

very small rupture. , , ... , On the 16th March 1910, Jainub, a multipara, was admitted into the female department of the Civil Hospital here, with a history of having been in labour for 2-1 hours with no advance of the child. There was no collapse and no history of there having been a sudden agonising pamA , State on admission.-The patient looked well, pulse steady and good ; the abdomen was p...

of Case Histories* Case 1. B., a white male, was born on December 1, 1932. The mother was 29 years old and had had one previous pregnancy. The mother's mem* As has been stated, the first 1 0 cases are not included in this series since they were used only to establish a satisfactory technic. Twenty-three infants were then examined between January 20 and March 4, 1932 (cases No. 11 to 36, with th...

Cases of dystocia from this cause are so very rare that the following one is worthy of record. I was sent for to a patient in connexion with the Fountainbridge Dispensary, with a message that she was a multipara, and had been in labour for more than twelve hours without any progress. On examining the case, I found the following condition. Abdominal Palpation.?The head of the child was still at ...

Myotonic dystrophy is the most common neuromuscular disease in adults with a prevalence of 2.4-5.5 per 100,000. Here we describe two cases of DM and discuss their obstetric complications. Our first case concerns a 39 year old multipara whose pregnancies were complicated by recurrent abdominal pain, polyhydramnios and post partum haemorrhage which was attributed to DM. In our second case we disc...

A Mohammedan multipara was admitted in the second stage of labour. There was delay in the advance of the head through the lower canal. Examination revealed that a normal labour was taking place, but a hard mass was felt in the anterior vaginal wall, and a cystocoele was seen to bulge below the pubic arch obstructing the progress of the head. A no. 10 male silver catheter was passed per urethrem...

In this issue of Circulation, Midei and colleagues1 from The Johns Hopkins University report a high incidence of myocarditis in women with postpartum congestive heart failure. Myocarditis was first convincingly documented to be a cause of peripartum cardiomyopathy in 1982 by Melvin et a12 at King's College Hospital in London through use of premortem transvenous endomyocardial biopsy. Since then...

ECLAMPSIA is a disease of theories and personal prejUd(li(S. 'l[his comimunication endleavours to present certaini facts emerging from a study of eighty-two conisecutive cases at the Jubilee Maternity Hospital in the ten-year period 1939-48. Ihese cases were treated mainlyr by the originial Stroganoff technique, but in the last two N7ears nmagniesiumii sulphate, so(liutm -ardenal, and other dru...

A Hindu woman, aged 42, a multipara, came to Bijaya Hospital, Dungarpur and stated that she was suffering from a growth in her abdomen for 23 years. She added that at first this growth had appeared on the left side and since then has continued to fill the abdominal cavity gradually. She has been a woman of thin constitution but has been in fairly good health. Operation.?An incision in the media...