Showing papers in "British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1963"

TL;DR: Investigations indicated that the venous return from the abdomen and lower limbs was of a very different pattern from that of the non-pregnant state, and the pressure within the lower vena cava in advanced pregnancy was raised in the supine position to a level comparable with that obtained by complete vena caval occlusion in non-Pregnant women.

TL;DR: The present paper reports the results of such analyses and represents the cumulative experience gained in two laboratories over a period of years, as well as giving values for the excretion of oestriol in the urine during normal and abnormal pregnancies.

TL;DR: The present analysis is based on a heterogeneous collection of measurements, but sufficient information is available to specify the normal pattern of excretion of both steroids, their interrelationship, and to indicate some of the factors with which they seem to be related.

TL;DR: The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of pituitary and urinary follicle stimulating hormone of various degrees of purity, given in combination with chorionic gonadotrophin, to patients with idiopathic secondary amenorrhoea.

TL;DR: The earliest period of gestation at which foetal echoes can be made out is explored, and if sonar examination would assist in the diagnosis of certain complications of early pregnancy is determined.

TL;DR: This paper is limited to a description of sections from the maternal surface of mature placentae only, in areas not macroscopically involved by infarction or calcification.

TL;DR: Competition of the sphincter mechanism of the uterus is now a well-established cause of habitual miscarriage in the middle trimester and a significant improvement is early ligation before cervical dilatation commences.

TL;DR: The grouping together, as “white infarcts”, of all white fibrin plaques has made unduly difficult the task of defining a pathological basis to the clinical syndrome of placental insufficiency and has led to considerable confusion in the literature on placental pathology.

TL;DR: The range of activity encountered in pregnancy and cord blood of seven enzymes in common diagnostic use is determined to be able to interpret values found in abnormal pregnancy, but also to ascertain whether there is any pattern of change which might throw some light on the source of such abnormal values as might be encountered.

TL;DR: The sadistic nature of the operation helps to foster that morbid attitude towards sex which is found in many communities, and it has succeeded in many societies in making it immoral for a girl not to be circumcised.

TL;DR: The most promising hypothesis proposed is that a form of malnutrition is important and is based on the writer's experience at Umuahia and Ama Achara in East Nigeria, and on various other statistical and experimental considerations.

TL;DR: There is good agreement on the motility pattern of the intact uterus under various endocrine conditions, although opinions still differ with regard to the relative influence of ovarian hormones on uterine motility in the human.

TL;DR: The investigation undertaken and reported here was directed at discovering whether or not the assessment of the serum level of uric acid had any practical diagnostic or therapeutic value when used in combination with the history and clinical findings in the patient with hypertension complicating her pregnancy.

TL;DR: It is often difficult to induce a diuresis in late normal pregnancy, even when the woman is confined to bed, and a series of experiments was devised to find out the extent of this inability to excrete water and the time in pregnancy at which it first becomes apparent.

TL;DR: The peripheral blood of normal pregnant there have been no reports of blood oestrogen women has been the subject of much investilevels in abnormal pregnancies, although many gation in recent years.

TL;DR: This report suggested that the increasing use of ergometrine as a prophylactic against post-partum haemorrhage may well have played a part in reducing maternal mortality as compared with the previous report 1952-1954.

TL;DR: A preliminary assessment of the problem with particular regard to diagnosis of contracted pelvis in circumstances very different to those pertaining in obstetric practice in more developed countries is made.

TL;DR: In this series, apart from one cervical carcinoma in situ and one very early invasive carcinoma of the cervix, all the conditions indicating operation were benign and all the operations performed were total abdominal hysterectomies.

TL;DR: The isoenzyme patterns of these two enzymes were investigated in sera obtained during normal pregnancy and labour, in cord bloods and in tissue extracts, in an attempt to throw light on the origin of the increased activity of enzymes of Classes I1 and I11 above.

TL;DR: Bladder pressure was measured by using a miniature endoradiosonde or “radio-pill”, a pressuresensitive capsule that transmits the pressure information by telemetry to a nearby radio receiver and the urethra is therefore free from wires or tubes.

TL;DR: Acid and alkaline phosphatase activity was estimated in extracts of the whole placenta in order to determine if the activities of these enzymes differed from normal in placentae associated with toxaemia of pregnancy, intrauterine death, and other abnormal conditions.

TL;DR: The present investigation was carried out to study the problem of maternal morbidity after surgical induction of labour, to examine the bacterial flora of the vagina before this procedure and to follow any changes in this flora during the induction-delivery interval.

TL;DR: The conclusion was that the essential cause of ectopic gestation is the inability of an unimplanted ovum to suppress the subsequent menstrual bleeding, and that this bleeding is the mechanical factor that stops the progress of the egg in the Fallopian tube, or even expels it from the uterine cavity into the salpinx.

TL;DR: It would perhaps be appropriate to reassess and to bring the operative results up to date-thus providing a 5to 10-year cure and failure rate.

TL;DR: The aim of the present investigation was to study the change in the concentration of oestrogen in the peripheral venous blood of pregnant women after delivery to indicate the speed with which oestrogens are metabolized and excreted in man.

TL;DR: Patients reported by Overzier and Linden and a third reported by Philipp had physical features very closely resembling those in the case; these three patients were found to be chromatin-negative, but their sex chromosome complement was not determined.