Word: toxemia
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What the Navy researchers found still more surprising was that the 10-to-30-cigarettes-a-day women had fewer incidents of the mysterious condition called "the toxemia of pregnancy." Early symptoms of this trouble are usually rising blood pressure, rapid weight gain and headache, followed by urinary difficulties and abdominal pain. This stage is "pre-eclampsia." The later stage of true eclampsia involves convulsions and threatens the lives of mother and child. Both the moderate and severe forms were less common among smoking than among nonsmoking mothers. Why? The Navy doctors went back to their delivery rooms without hazarding...
Jane Doe, 27, was pregnant when she was admitted to the hospital in 1957 and found to have high blood pressure, heart disease, overactive adrenal glands, and a mysterious, often fatal blood condition called toxemia of pregnancy. Doctors decided to end the pregnancy, but before they could operate on Mrs. Doe. she had a stroke that left her partly paralyzed. Then her baby was stillborn. She still has severe right-side paralysis, heart disease, kidney damage, impairment of speech and emotional instability. It is Dr. Buxton's judgment as a physician that another pregnancy might easily kill...
...hner test showed normal sperm survival at two hours. The patient said her last period began June 8, so by Naegele's rule, the confinement was due about March 15. But her history was bad -a Latzko Caesarean section for Bandl's ring and toxemia-and we found a hydatid of Morgagni then. On pelvic examination, Skene's ducts were normal, but the left Bartholin gland was slightly enlarged. Chadwick's sign was positive. A Papanicolaou smear was negative. Her Aschheim-Zondek was positive...
Prebirth information begins with a detailed form in which the mother can describe her pregnancy, including such complications as toxemia and German measles. There are blanks for a description of labor, which should show whether the child, if handicapped in any way, might have been injured at birth. Blood type and Rh status are recorded for father and mother as well as baby. There is a three-page blank for details of baby's first medical examination after leaving the hospital, to be filled in by the doctor and pasted in the book...
...retarded children, no fewer than 67 resulted from troubled pregnancies. In 24 cases, the mothers had clearly been ill-half of them suffering from toxemia. In 38 cases there had been marked emotional stress brought on by husband trouble, illness or death in the family, threat of eviction, or, in the case of two unwed women, being abandoned by the men they had expected to marry. There were nine cases of shock or accident. With some overlaps, such factors were found in 66% of the retarded children's backgrounds, but in only 30% of the normal children...