Serial estimation of human placental lactogen, estriol, and pregnanediol in pregnancy correlated with whole organ section of placenta

摘要: Abstract A technique for the sectioning of whole placentas has been developed and applied to studies made concomitantly with estimations serum human placental lactogen (HPL), urinary estriol, pregnanediol in normal abnormal pregnancies. Twenty-four diabetic subjects delivered healthy babies showed values. Three death utero after 35 weeks had low estriol levels; HPL were normal. In three diabetics stillbirths, all measurements there hydropic changes. No abnormalities found 14 pre-eclamptic babies. severely toxemic patients stillbirths or fetal distress, low. The infarction fibrosis. relationship was between weight. Evidence is presented that a qualitative index growth function an status.