Inherited disorders of hemoglobin synthesis and pregnancy
1971; Elsevier BV; Volume: 111; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/0002-9378(71)90938-0
ISSN1097-6868
Autores Tópico(s)Neonatal Health and Biochemistry
Resumo‘I’H E P H EN 0 MEN 0 N Of pregnancy continues to intri<gue and excite both the clinician and the investigator. Separated from her nongravid counterparts, the pregnant woman constitutes a unique and fascinating island of mystery in a sea of investigative effort. All the knowledge of vital processcs and normal physiology must be reassessed when this state of sublime parasitization intervenes. It behooves the obstetrician and his consulting colleagues to note Lvith special care how they seek to alter and intrudt, upon the delicate milieu with which they are entrusted, in the knowledge that two very different, yet very similar, beings arts under their care simultaneously. It is a delicate and gentle balance at best, but rnrrl! in the medical affairs of man is the duration of his affliction (if so it be) so well predicted. Re it a blessing or a burdcn~ its termination is predestined, but at journey’s end may lit, a greater hazard than any along the way. The changes of months are dispelled in days. and the adjustment of the organism to hasp line and the metabolic processes to singleness of purpose involve jeopardies commensumtth with the rapidity of change.
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