In high- and low-performing districts of Bangladesh, the study explored the demand-side of maternal healthcare by looking at differences in perceived knowledge and care-seeking behaviours of women in relation to postpartum haemorrhage or eclampsia. Haemorrhage and eclampsia are two major causes of maternal mortality in Bangladesh. The study was conducted during July 2006-December 2007. Both pos...

Postpartum hemorrhage is an important cause of maternal morbidity and mortality after delivery. Active management of postpartum hemorrhage by an uterotonic drug decreases the rate of postpartum hemorrhage. The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of rectal misoprostol for prevention of postpartum hemorrhage. This double blind randomized clinical trial was performed on full term pregnan...

Introduction: 
 Placenta previa and morbidly adherent placenta cause significant maternal morbidity mortality from postpartum hemorrhage. Intra-aortic balloon occlusion has been shown to reduce intraoperative hemorrhage effectively.
 Cases Presentation
 We reported four cases of women who underwent cesarean section hysterectomy with IABO. All were multigravida, gestational age ra...

AIM Maternal mortality is a major health problem, especially in Nigeria, where accurate autopsy-based data on the prevalent causes are not readily available. The aim of this study was therefore to accurately determine the causes of maternal death as seen in a tertiary health facility in Nigeria. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a descriptive, retrospective review of the postmortem autopsy findi...

In 2010 it was estimated an incidence of 287,000 cases of maternal death worldwide, the majority of this cases were evitable and were registered in low income countries. The reduction of maternal death has been a global priority for a long time and its one of the Millennium Development Goals and one of the major concerns of the World Health Strategy for Women and Children launched by the Secret...

We employed a novel mouse line that expresses low levels of human tissue factor (TF) in the absence of murine TF to analyze the role of TF in gestation. Low-TF female mice had a 14-18% incidence of fatal postpartum uterine hemorrhage, suggesting that TF plays an important role in uterine hemostasis. Low-TF female mice mated with low-TF male mice had a 42% incidence of fatal midgestational hemor...

OBJECTIVE to develop and validate a questionnaire on severe maternal morbidity and to evaluate the maternal recall of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. DESIGN validity of a questionnaire as diagnostic instrument. SETTING a third level referral maternity in Campinas, Brazil. POPULATION 386 survivors of severe maternal complications and 123 women that delivered without majo...

Advising women on haemorrhage in pregnancy could be viewed as an integral aspect of maternal health care in Malawi. The WHO (1999) confirmed that haemorrhage in pregnancy was not only a direct reason for maternal mortality but also a major cause of maternal death. The question on the nature of information that midwives and traditional birth attendants (referred to as TBA's) in the Chiradzulu di...

Postpartum hemorrhage is one of the most common obstetric emergencies and largest contributor to maternal mortality in world, with uterine atony being cause. A 38-year-old woman came Karitas Hospital complaining vaginal bleeding after giving birth three hours ago. On examination, patient was somnolent signs shock. Anemic conjunctiva, pale lips, weak contractions uterus, active bleeding. The lab...