[Chronic high blood pressure in 110 pregnant women].

Background: Hypertension is associated with increased maternal and fetal mortality and morbidity. While there is consensus that severe hypertension should be treated, antihypertensive treatment for mild chronic hypertension during pregnancy remains controversial.

Objective: To evaluate clinical course, and maternal and perinatal outcomes of pregnant women with mild chronic hypertension without other disease, under strict control of maternal hypertension (target dBP of 85-89 mmHg).

[Analysis of maternal mortality during three periods at Hospital de Ginecología y Obstetricia del Centro Médico Nacional de Occidente].

Background: Most of deceases due to pregnancy, delivery, puerperium and them attention are avoidable with current medicine resources.

Objective: To analyze some basic elements of epidemiologic behavior of a hospital environment maternal mortality in a third level hospital during a period of 21 years.

Material And Methods: Analytical cross-sectional study, 222 maternal deaths registered at Hospital de Ginecologia y Obstetricia, Centro Medico Nacional de Occidente del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, were included, during the period 1985-2005.

[Pulmonary thromboembolism in obstetrics].

Background: Pulmonary embolism is a serious and sometimes mortal complication of pregnant and puerperal women. Pulmonary embolism diagnosis can be difficult. In Mexico, it causes between 2.

[The HELPP syndrome--evidence of a possible systemic inflammatory response in pre-eclampsia?].

Introduction: The principal causes of morbidity and mortality during pregnancy in Mexico, are preeclampsia/eclampsia, obstetric hemorrhage and puerperium complications; this is, 62% of maternal deaths in last years. HELLP syndrome was observed between 5 to 25% of the mortality in pregnancies of 36 weeks or less.

Objective: To analyze patients with HELLP syndrome in ICU's (Intensive Care Unit) of a Gynecology and Obstetric Hospital, related to the abnormal hematological, hepatic and renal results with the obstetric case history and the clinical complications.