Dos 181 casos de úlcera de córnea admitidos ao Kellogg Eye Center entre 1975 e 1983, 26 ocorreram em olhos que haviam sido submemtidos a ceratoplastia penetrante. Ceratopatia bolhosa foi a indicaçäo mais freqüente para ceratoplastia penetrante. O intervalo médio de tempo entre a ceratoplastia e o i...
Se exponen los factores de riesgo que inciden en la cirugía del abdomen agudo, ya que son muchos los que pueden traer estos enfermos y hay que tenerlos presentes durante la operación y en el período posoperatorio. Se hace hincapié en la insuficiencia respiratoria, ya que es uno de los factores de rie...
Social and environmental factors were related to preterm delivery in a national population of 10,330 singleton births occuring in the Jamaican National Perinatal Morbidity and Mortality Survey of 1986. Among women certain of their dates, the preterm delivery rate was 14.2 por ciento . Initial two-way tab...
Information on the signs and symptoms of the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy was collected for over 10,000 pregnant women as part of the Jamaican Perinatal Study. The women in the study comprised all those living in Jamaica who delivered singletons weighing more than 1000g after 27 weeks gestation du...
Data on over 10,000 pregnant women from the Jamaican Perinatal Survey have been used to determine the combinations of blood pressures, proteinuria or oedema that are best at predicting poor pregnancy outcome (eclampsia, perinatal mortality, low birthweight and fetal growth retardation). The combination t...
Socioeconomic factors relating to all maternal deaths identified during the 12 months of the Jamaican Perinatal Morbidity and Mortality Survey were compared with a control population of over 10,000 women. The maternal mortality rate was 11.5 per 10,000 livebirths. Initial analyses showed (a) a negative t...
The authors studied 3,783 pregnant women from the prenatal care unit in a period of 50 months. There were 302 (7.98 per cent) high risk pregnancies. They were classified in four main groups: clinical, obstetrical, gynecological and difficult past obstetric performance. Each group was specified. The autho...
