[Results of two treatment regimens for pyelonephritis during pregnancy and correlation with pregnancy outcome].

Purpose: To determine the epidemiological profile of women admitted for urinary tract infection as well as to verify the most prevalent agents and response to antibiotic therapy.

Methods: A retrospective study of 106 pregnant women admitted to a university hospital for urinary tract infection treatment during the period between January 2007 to December 2010. The evaluation was based on analysis of the medical records of these pregnant women, with the observation of hospitalization and pregnancy data, as well as its outcome.

[Manual vacuum aspiration uterine treatment of incomplete abortion to 12 gestational weeks: an alternative to curettage].

Purpose: To analyze the effectiveness and occurrence of complications, in addition to hospitalization time and blood losses.

Methods: Thirty patients were assigned alternatively and consecutively to one of two groups (15 to the Curettage Group and 15 to the Manual Vacuum Aspiration Group). The following variables were analyzed: effectiveness of the method, occurrence of complications, time before the procedure, time of execution of the procedure, time after the procedure, and total time of hospital permanence, in addition to hematocrit and hemoglobin, which were measured before and after the procedure.