[Treatment of arterial hypertension in pregnancy with an alpha-beta blocker. 58 Cases treated with labetalol].

The results of the treatment in hypertension with pregnancy by a alpha-beta blocker in 58 women show: the good tolerance of the drug and its lack of teratogenic effect, its quasi-constant efficiency (91%) in hypertension, its benefit repercussion on neonatal weight. However, this therapeutics requires a maternal careful watching all along pregnancy, and especially of the new-born children, with regard to the risk of hypoglycemia.

[Importance of systematic research of urinary infection in pregnant women and the cost of its detection. Proposal for a practical approach].

The first part consisted of a prospective study dealing with a series of 170 pregnancies during which cyto-bacteriological examination of urine was carried out in the 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th months of pregnancy. Whenever bacteriuria was found it was treated. Those women found to be infected in pregnancy were re-examined bacteriologically and radiologically after delivery.