this study was designed to investigate causes of culling in industrial dairy herds in fars province and to describe the pattern of reason-specific culling with respect to age of animal and interval from calving to culling. a total number of 9 dairy herds were selected for the study and information about culling reasons, birth date, last calving date and culling date was collected for culled cow...

Dairy cows are exposed to numerous hematological and biochemical changes, particularly in late gestation and early lactation. Various factors influence a metabolic profile in animals. Reliable indicators of metabolic profile and health status of dairy cows in peripartum period are haematological and biochemical parameters. A transitional period in dairy cows is followed by physiological, metabo...

Two patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) presented for delivery. The first had a repeat Caesarean section with general anaesthesia and the second gave birth vaginally with epidural analgesia. Both patients developed pulmonary oedema in the peripartum period. These cases highlight the delicate fluid requirements of the pregnant patient with HOCM. The fluid management of t...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The study goal was to identify potential risk factors for peripartum or postpartum stroke and intracranial venous thrombosis. METHODS Data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project were analyzed for the years 1993 and 1994. Observed values were weighted with poststratification discharge weights to project to the universe of all discharges from community hospitals...

OBJECTIVE To audit the clinical management preceding peripartum hysterectomy and evaluate if peripartum hysterectomies are potentially avoidable and by which means. MATERIAL AND METHODS We developed a structured audit form based on explicit criteria for the minimal mandatory management of the specific types of pregnancy and delivery complications leading to peripartum hysterectomy. We evaluat...

Background: Peripartum or obstetric hysterectomy is the removal of corpus uteri alone with cervix at time a caesarean section shortly after vaginal delivery. On one hand, it last resort to save woman's life and on other her reproductive capability sacrificed. Many times very difficult decision requires good clinical judgment. Most operation carried out when condition patient too critical withst...

Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a rare and under recognized form of dilated cardiomyopathy, defined as a heart failure in the last month of pregnancy or in the first five months post-partum with absence of determinable cause for cardiac failure and absence of demonstrable heart disease. The incidence of peripartum cardiomyopathy ranges from 1 in 1300 to 1 in 15,000 pregnancy. Advanced maternal age...

Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a rare obstetric emergency affecting women in late pregnancy or up to five months of postpartum period. The etiology of PPCM is still not known. It has potentially devastating effects on mother and fetus if not treated early. The signs, symptoms and treatment of PPCM are similar to that of heart failure. Early diagnosis and proper management is the corner sto...