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B Alderman

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PubMed1985

Spontaneous rupture of the uterus associated with pyometra.

A case is reported in which an elderly patient was admitted with signs and symptoms of an acute abdomen. A laparotomy revealed uterine rupture with free pus in the peritoneal cavity and subsequent histology of the uterus showed no evidence of malignancy.

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PubMed1978

Evaluation of oral glucose tolerance test results in pregnancy.

Oral glucose tolerance and insulin response to glucose were analysed in 124 pregnant women during the fourth quartile of pregnancy. Employing different criteria for the detection of glucose intolerance, 9% to 21% of women were abnormal, and using the H index 43% would have been declared "diabetic". There was no evidence of a progressive change in the glucose curve detectable by the H index within the fourth quartile of pregnancy. There was no association between actual or potential fetal morbidity and any of the interpretative criteria employed. It is concluded that the oral glucose tolerance test should be interpreted with caution if non-pregnant criteria of abnormality are employed.

Birth Weight↗
PubMed1976

[Graphic monitoring of the latent phase of intensified labor].

In planned delivery it is often advantageous to be able to monitor the early course of stimulated labour. This paper describes the construction of a graph which defines the rate of progress of the latent phase of augmented labour in 307 women, which represented 80% of a group of patients in a "low risk" category obstetrically.

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PubMed1975

Neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia following the use of oxytocin in labour.

A prospective study of 1353 labours and the relevant newborn failed to reveal any significant difference between the incidence of neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia (defined as a level of 12 mg. or more per 100 ml.) following spontaneous labour, and after labour induced or accelerated by oxytocin. The incidence of unexplained neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia after spontaneous labour was 6-3 per cent. Following induced labour however there was a highly significant (P less than 0-001) association between the mean total dose of oxytocin used for induction and the incidence of neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia. The proportion of babies who developed hyperbilirubinaemia increased in direct relation to the total dose of oxytocin used for the induction. In this series the incidence of hyperbilirubinaemia increased sharply when the total dose of oxytocin exceeded 20 units as it did hyperbilirubinaemia and birthweight, or duration of spontaneous labour. When labour was induced, however, the proportion on newborn babies with hyperbilirubinaemia increased with the duration of labour. The significance of these findings is discussed.

Bilirubin↗