The Effect of Eclamptic Blood Upon the Urinary Output and Blood Pressure of Human Recipients
Year: 1938
Type: article
Abstract: The experiments described below were under-taken with two purposes in mind; first, to deter-mine whether the transfer of 400 cc. of blood from patients with severe preeclampsia or eclamp-sia to normal pregnant women would have any effect upon the blood pressure, urinary output, and symptomatology of the recipient; and sec-ondly, by standardization of the procedure, to discover in eclamptic blood traces of postpituitary hormone in excess of the amount which might be present in normal blood. LITERATURE The toxicity of the blood serum in eclampsia has been studied by numerous workers with varying results. Be-tween 1890 and 1895, all workers agreed that eclamptic
DOI: 10.1172/jci100945
Author: Ernest W. Page
Institution: University of Southern California
Language: English
Subfield: Obstetrics and Gynecology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2024991476