[Sickle cell anemia and pregnancy: review of 68 cases in Guadeloupe].

Pregnancy in women with major sickle cell syndromes is a high risk maternofetal situation. This descriptive study presents the features and the clinical course of 68 pregnancies in sickle cell women who were delivered in Guadeloupe from January 1(st) 1993 to December 31(st) 1997. Specific complications were observed in all hemoglobin types, but with a severer course in SS women.

[Prune Belly syndrome. A case of recurrence].

Prune belly syndrome is rare. It involves a combination of muscular hypoplasia of the abdominal wall, marked dilatation of the bladder and ureters and, in its most severe form, bilateral testicular ectopia. Fetuses of both sexes may be affected, with a marked predominance of males.

[Follow-up of HIV-I seropositive children at the Saint-Hyacinthe Hospital in Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe)].

Between 1985 and 1989, we have followed twenty (20) newly born babies whose mothers were HIV seropositive. Eight of them were contaminated. Two of them died.