[CITATION][C] Treatment of cardiac arrest in acute myocardial ischaemia and infarction

DG Julian - The Lancet, 1961 - Elsevier
DG Julian
The Lancet, 1961Elsevier
her pregnancy will cease to gain weight and then begin to lose weight. The abdominal girth
may diminish, and about this time the foetus is in danger. Similarly, in essential hypertension
cessation of maternal weight-gain and decrease in girth are often followed by intra-uterine
foetal death. In pre-eclampsia the picture of maternal weight-gain is often distorted by the
development of oedema, but the similarity of the reduction of maternal placental blood-flow
in these two conditions leaves little doubt that if the effect of oedema could be eliminated …
her pregnancy will cease to gain weight and then begin to lose weight. The abdominal girth may diminish, and about this time the foetus is in danger. Similarly, in essential hypertension cessation of maternal weight-gain and decrease in girth are often followed by intra-uterine foetal death. In pre-eclampsia the picture of maternal weight-gain is often distorted by the development of oedema, but the similarity of the reduction of maternal placental blood-flow in these two conditions leaves little doubt that if the effect of oedema could be eliminated there would be a similar loss of weight in the pre-eclamptic woman. It seems, therefore, that determination of the volume of liquor by a method such as that described above could give timely warning of the necessity to terminate the pregnancy so as to rescue the foetus from an increasingly anoxic environment. Summary
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