[Pathomorphology of the kidneys in acute renal failure caused by thrombotic microangiopathy in pregnancy, during labor and in puerperas].

The review of literature on acute renal deficiency in pregnancy, delivery and post-delivery period is presented.

[Clinico-anatomic analysis of maternal mortality in the Arkhangelsk region].

Clinico-anatomical analysis is presented of 93 autopsies of pregnant women, women in childbirth and puerperas who died in 1985-1999 in the Arkhangelsk region. In this region complications after abortion occur less frequently than in Russia on the whole while the percentage of late gestosis, obstetric hemorrhage and pyoseptic complications were high than mean Russian. In small number of discrepancies between final clinical and anatomo-pathological diagnosis, high percentage of discrepancies was found in the diagnosis of the 3rd category and iatrogenia this being due to difficulties in clinical diagnosis of obstetic pathology and increasing incidence of surgical deliveries.

[Preeclampsia of pregnant women complicated by HELLP syndrome].

One case of a Hell syndrome in a female of 22 with gestational eclampsism is described. The syndrome seemed to develop 2 weeks before hospitalization and manifested with brain hemorrhage followed by obstruction of liquor spaces. Morphologically, HELL syndrome was characterized by multilobular liver necrosis, hemoglobinurea nephrosis and pronounced hemorrhagic diathesis.