Longitudinal study of serum lipids and lipoproteins in normal pregnancy and puerperium.

23 cases of normal pregnancy were investigated for serum cholesterol, triglyceride and lipid profile in three trimesters of pregnancy and in the postnatal period. Thirty-three normal healthy non-pregnant women of the same age group formed the control group. A progressive rise was observed in serum triglyceride and cholesterol reaching the peak in the third trimester and a definite fall in the postnatal period compared to the antepartum level.

A study of the changes in serum potassium concentration with suxamethonium using different anaesthetic agents.

Serum potassium concentrations were measured after administration of suxamethonium (1 mg/kg body wt.) in 101 patients in whom anaesthesia was induced by one of five different techniques. There was a maximum increase in serum potassium of 21.