[Intensive care admissions due to severe maternal morbidity].

Background: Maternal morbidity is a quality of care indicator. The frequency of severe maternal morbidity that requires an intensive care management has increased, due to an increase in maternal age.

Aim: To describe the severe and acute maternal morbidity spectrum that requires an intensive care management in a University Hospital.

[Transient renal failure in a newborn due angiotensin receptor II antagonist use during pregnancy: report of a case].

Fetal renal structure and function can be altered by medications prescribed to pregnant women. We report a chronic hypertensive pregnant woman treated with losartan before and throughout pregnancy. At 30 weeks the patient was referred to our Fetal Medicine Unit due to absent amniotic fluid with normal uterine artery Doppler and fetal growth.