The Effect of Surgery on Serum Haptogloglobins

Abstract

The technique is suitable for serial determinations from about the 20th week of pregnancy and four urines can conveniently be examined in a working time of approximately four hours spread over two days.Provisional results in mid-late pregnancy are similar to those reported by Zondek and Goldberg (l957) using the fluorimetric technique of Finkelstein (1952).

On Haemoglobin Degradation in the Newborn

“…on the fifth day) was observed in an infant (Ho, table II) who was severely bruised at birth. These observations lend support to the hypothesis that a normal response to either tissue damage or non-specific inflammatory reaction (20) or to "stress" (22) involves increased production of plasma haptoglobin.…”