Together with estrogen, progesterone: 1  Develops the uterine endometrium, or lining of the uterus, to prepare it for implantation. 2  Affects the metabolism, promoting fat deposition. 3  Maternal stores of body fat provide a reserve of energy for pregnancy and lactation. 4  Prepares breasts for lactation.
Swan-Ganz catheterization is the passing of a thin tube (catheter) into the right side of the heart and the arteries leading to the lungs. It is done to monitor the heart's function and blood flow. This test is most often done in persons who are very ill. How the Test is Performed
Select Swan/Swann Names Sweyn Forkbeard was the Danish king who briefly became king of England in 1013. James Swan from Scotland was an American patriot during the Revolutionary War who ended up in a French debtor's prison. Thomas Swann was Governor of Maryland in the 1860's.obert Swan arrived from Eastrington in Yorkshire in the 1650 s and settled in Haverhill, Massachusetts. His son John was rather upstaged by his wife Susannah Swan, a true pioneer woman who was abducted not once but twice by Indians and yet lived to be a hundred years old.