Bilirubin and bile acids in the blood of pregnant women

Abstract

Süsstrunk (Zeit. F. Geb. u. Gyn., Bd. LXXXIX. H. I) in his studies could establish in pregnant women a 35% increased bilirubin content in the blood, while during childbirth this figure rose to 71%. The author could not notice any parallelism between this phenomenon and the increased content of bile acids in the blood usually observed during pregnancy. S. sees the reason for this phenomenon in the metabolic changes inherent in pregnancy, but not in the stagnation of bile. Among the diseases of pregnant women, the author did not find an increased content of bilirubin in the blood with the "kidney of pregnant women", and with eclampsia. on the contrary, I saw a significant increase in it.