[Mortality risk factors in the child of a toxemic mother].

Objective: To determine risk factors of mortality in the infant of a toxemic mother.

Material And Methods: A case-controls study, single products only, of 28-42 weeks of gestation; cases were either stillborn and neonatal deaths. Where controls were survivors.

[Risk factors for Wilms' tumor development in children].

Introduction: Wilms' tumor (WT) is the most frequent embryonic renal neoplasia in children.

Objective: This study was carried out to investigate risk factors in the development of WT.

Material And Methods: A design of cases and controls, proactive, of incident cases, with four controls per case.

[Risk factors for the development of germ cell tumors in children].

The search for risk factors for development of germ cell tumors (GCT) in children who lived in Mexico City (MC). A protective, observational, case-control study was conducted in children under 15 years of age resident in MC, insurer by the Mexican Institute of Social Security. The study population was selected between January 1st, 1990 and December 31st, 1994.

[Puerperium with short-term hospitalization].

Seventy seven cases with discharge before 12 hours post-partum and 240 cases with discharge after 24 or more hours after delivery, were evaluated at Hospital General de México, in an observational, prospective, cohort, study in low risk deliveries. Both groups were reviewed ten days after delivery. There were no different ratios for abnormal uterine hemorrhage, urinary tract infection or endometritis.

[Indomethacin in threatening premature labor. Fetal and neonatal cardiovascular effects].

At the Hospital de Ginecobstetricia del Centro Medico "La Raza", between october 1, 1990 to may 31, 1991, were attended 50 women with premature labor, with pregnancies of 30-36 week sold. They were given 100 mg of indomethacin, rectal, daily, in order to obtain arrest of the uterine activity. The mean doses given was 4 +/- 0.