Comparative prognostic value of serum placental and tissue oxytocinase, alkaline phosphatase and its heat-stable fraction in pregnancy at neuroendocrinological risk

Biological Gestational Age and Its Calendar Assessment with Ultrasound

“…In patients suffering from diabetes or hypertension this percentage tends to behave in an oppo site way and they equal to 26.7%, 26.7%, 46.7% and 16%, 24%, 60%, respectively [9], This remains coherent with the statement that in pregnant women, threatened with mis carriages or premature deliveries, the enzyme values are still lower, though the ACTH-therapy in such cases enables the successful outcome of pregnancy. The substitutive ACTH-therapy, introduced in the 60s -led to the fact that instead of intrauterine fetal deaths observed in 80% of pregnancies in women with hypothalamic syndrome, now adays, the survival of such infants amounts to above 90% [12,13,15]. The clinical application of ACTH as the optional treaatment in hypothalamic insufficiency syn drome has appeared gradually very useful in preventing the premature labors or neonatal respiratory distress.…”

Synthetic Oligopeptide Substrates Their Diagnostic Application in Blood Coagulation, Fibrinolysis, and Other Pathologic States

“…In complicated pregnancies, it has been demonstrated that monitoring of serum oxytocinase was of greater diagnostic value than urinary estrogen assays [232]. In addition, the assay of oxytocinase has the particular advan tage that it is not affected by renal disease, which frequently clouds the inter pretation of estrogen excretion.…”