Massive gastric hemorrhage in pregnancy

Abstract

1.1. Four cases of severe gastric hemorrhage in pregnancy are presented.2.2. There were three deaths and one survival.3.3. Three cases presented an eclamptic syndrome of hypertension, edema, convulsions, oliguria, and albuminuria.4.4. All four cases ran a septic temperature.5.5. All four cases had severe projectile vomiting of blood followed by marked decrease of blood pressure.6.6. In three of the four cases, the onset of labor occurred 24 to 28 hours following the onset of projectile hematemesis.7.7. Three cases delivered stillborn infants, and, in one case, in which the patient survived, the infant was premature and viable.