Summary and Conclusion
A study was made of the postpartum haemorrhage rates in 170 patients with iron‐deficiency anaemia diagnosed in the last 3 weeks of pregnancy and in 1,743 non‐anaemic patients, both groups being delivered at National Women's Hospital during the period January to August, 1966. No significant difference between the 2 groups was found. It was concluded that urgent methods (blood transfusion and intravenous iron therapy) of overcoming iron‐deficiency anaemia in the last 3 weeks of pregnancy are not justifiable quite apart from their risks.
Summary: Chorioncarcinoma, a rare disease in New Zealand, occurred once in every 7,770 deliveries in the National Women's Hospital in the period 1957–68. Six cases with metastatic disease are presented and treatment by chemotherapy, with or without hysterectomy, is discussed. From a review of the literature and the cases presented it seems that chemotherapy alone, using Methotrexate and occasionally Actinomycin D, is the treatment of choice.
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