Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to H J Mellows.
A patient is reported whose only two pregnancies resulted in phenotypically and genotypically female infants with camptomelic syndrome of the long-limbed variety. Both infants died within a few minutes of birth.
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Prostaglandin E2, 350 microgram dispersed in a viscous gel, tylose, was introduced into the extra-amniotic space as a single dose in 285 patients to induce labour. With a favourable cervix, 82 per cent of multiparae and 50 per cent of primiparae were successfully induced. With unfavourable induction features, the success rates were 48 per cent and 24 per cent respectively. In the remaining patients, all but four were successfully delivered when intravenous oxytocin was also used. The method was safe, simple and inexpensive and had many advantages for patients and nursing staff.
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