Comparison of serum and breast milk ferritin with some hematological parameters in the perinatal period.

Hemoglobin, hematocrit, serum iron, total serum iron binding capacity, transferrin saturation and ferritin levels of 27 pregnant women and their babies at delivery and at 8-10 weeks of age and of their mature breast milk were determined. Eighteen pregnant women with iron deficiency anemia and 9 healthy pregnant women as controls constituted the groups in this study. Excepting serum iron (p 0.02). Besides, a significant relation (r:0.535) was found between the ferritin values of the cord blood and of the infants' sera at 8-10 weeks of age

Tissue hypoxia of the femoral head during orthopaedic treatment of congenital dislocation of the hip

During treatment of cases with congenital dislocation of the hip by closed and open reduction techniques significant tissue hypoxia of the femoral head is revealed by lactate and pyruvate determinations in the regional bone marrow blood before and after various positions attained by adductor myotomy with skeletal traction in children younger than 2 years of age, older than 4 years of age and late postoperatively