Pregnancy-related deaths due to pulmonary embolism: findings from two state-based mortality reviews.

This report presents findings from two state-based pregnancy-related reviews of deaths due to pulmonary embolism to describe prevalence, risk factors, and timing of symptoms and fatal events (N = 46). We examined the utility of state-based maternal mortality review teams as a means to gain more complete data on maternal deaths from which guidelines for prevention and intervention can be developed. The Florida Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review Team and Virginia Maternal Mortality Review Team collaborated on findings from 9 years of pregnancy-related mortality review conducted in each state.

Psychosocial risk factors as contributors to pregnancy-associated death in Virginia, 1999-2001.

Objective: To determine if substance abuse, mental illness, and domestic violence contributed to preventable pregnancy-associated death and to describe characteristics of women for whom these factors contributed to death.

Methods: The medical records of 121 women who had pregnancy-associated deaths in Virginia between 1999 and 2001 were reviewed. The incidence of substance abuse, mental illness, and domestic violence was noted during systematic review.

Delayed uterine re-inversion: a unique symptom complex.

A case of late recurrence of uterine inversion is presented. Symptoms included constipation and urinary retention without uterine bleeding. Symptoms resolved 3 months after the replacement of the uterus.

Attempted vaginal birth after cesarean section: a multicenter comparison of outpatient prostaglandin E(2) gel with expectant management.

Objective: To compare the clinical effectiveness and safety of outpatient administration of an intracervical prostaglandin (PG) E(2) gel with expectant management for women with an unfavorable cervix who wish to attempt a vaginal birth after cesarean section.Study Design: This outpatient study was a randomized, multicenter investigation involving pregnant women at term with one previous low transverse cesarean section. Each had an unfavorable cervix (Bishop score View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Treasure of the Past: III: Gravitational Anisotropy in Crystals.

Einstein's theory of gravitation is based upon a fundamental postulate which asserts that gravitation and inertia are identical in nature and hence indistinguishable. This if true, is of the greatest theoretical importance, for gravitation has heretofore refused to show any relationship to other physical phenomena. A most delicate test of this postulate is possible in a crystal of one of the nonisometric systems; for in such a crystal every known physical property (except inertia and, possibly, weight) varies with the axial direction in the crystal; and it is an interesting question whether, in such a crystal, gravitation will be found to align itself with inertia or will show some variability which will classify it with the great majority of physical phenomena.