The link between high maternal blood pressure and poor pregnancy outcome is well established. Similarly the causal relationship between acute maternal hypotension and acute fetal distress is well recognised. The link between poor pregnancy outcome and persistent maternal hypotension is less well known. McClure Brown [1] was the first to report an increase in perinatal mortality in the presence ...

Background—Low-pressure cardiac tamponade is a form of cardiac tamponade in which a comparatively low pericardial pressure results in cardiac compression because of low filling pressure. This syndrome is poorly characterized because only isolated cases have been reported. We conducted a study of its clinical and hemodynamic profiles. Methods and Results—From 1986 through 2004, we evaluated all ...

results the mean heart rate values were significantly less in the sevoflurane group (p value < 0.05) at 25 minutes after the surgery. the mean blood pressure in the isoflurane group was significantly higher compared with the sevoflurane group in 10, 20 and 30 minutes after the surgery (p values = 0.0131, 0.0373 and 0.0028, respectively). these differences were clinically unimportant because hea...