[Eclampsia, obstetric hemorrhage and heart disease as a cause of maternal mortality in 15 years of analysis].

Background: It has been described that 70% of all maternal deaths are provoked by obstetrical hemorrhage, infections, abortions, hypertension and delivery dystocies. Poverty, social exclusion, low level education and violence are important causes of maternal mortality.

Objective: To establish the changes in the maternal mortality in a term of 15 years in a hospital of assistance obstetrical complicated.

[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.

[Is the high frequency of Caesarean sections in a highly specialized gyneco-obstetric hospital justifiable?].

Objective: To determine if the high proportion of cesarean section performed at Obstetrics and Gynecology number 3 Hospital of the Medical Center "La Raza", IMSS (HGO3) is justified.

Material And Methods: We carried out a cross sectional study of 300 patients who underwent cesarean section during a period of 35 consecutive days, from October to November 2001. We reviewed their clinical expedients and went to additional direct interrogatory.