was prolapse of one leg from the vagina. Duration of labour, one day. When the patient came to the hospital, the membranes were ruptured, pregnancy was of full term and the woman was a primipara. The abdomen was unduly large which suggested twins. The temperature was 101.4?F. and the pulse was 120 to the minute. As is customary in India, the patient had been treated by dais and digital examinat...

BACKGROUND Wernicke's encephalopathy is usually associated with alcohol abuse, but can also occur with hyperemesis gravidarum. The effect of delay in thiamine replacement on fetal outcomes is unknown. We present a case of this complication. CASE A primipara with hyperemesis was admitted for mental status changes in her 14th week of pregnancy. Physical examination revealed a lethargic patient ...

form complicating pregnancy and labour. The connexion between the generative organs and the nervous system is so intimate that functional disturbances of the latter in pregnancy are frequent. It is important, however, to remember that such disturbances as we commonly associate with hysteria may be the early symptoms of a grave nervous lesion, as the following case shows. The patient was a young...

II called upon me and requested me to see his wife. On the way I learnt from him that she was a primipara of some 34 years of aee, and in the fourth day of her troubles ! On arrival at the Nawab's house I found not less than fifty women in the lying-in-room, consisting of dhiiis,.relatives, and friends. The atmosphere was suffocating, and the room filthy. The history of the case was easily made...

A 30-year-old, 16-week primipara woman visited with complaints of lower back pain over the past 3 weeks. She had a history of ultrasound-guided transvaginal oocyte retrieval for in vitro fertilization (IVF) 14 weeks earlier. Lumbar spine magnetic resonance imaging showed infectious spondylitis and the results of blood and spinal biopsy cultures showed Staphylococcus aureus. Intravenous cefazoli...