Fournier’s gangrene is one of the infectious and gangrenous diseases seen worldwide ,It is commonly reported in Adult males but also in females. Injuries are nidus to its pathogenesis and manymicrobes have been cultured from this clinical entity .This reported case was an incidental presentation resulting from obstetric care given by an unskilled personnel to a high risk pregnancy at term in pr...

BACKGROUND Continuation of delivery care by a midwife, and establishing a relationship between the midwife and the delivering woman, is so important for women, and preserving such relationship increases woman's calmness and self-confidence. The current research aims at studying the effect of midwifery continuing care during delivery on delivery outcomes. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was a...

BACKGROUND Given considerable evidence that routine episiotomy increases maternal morbidity and without evidence to support maternal or neonatal benefit, has episiotomy use changed among health care providers? To date, very limited information exists relating to the past and current practice of episiotomy in many developing countries. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of episiotomy at Aba...

Our objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of adhesive glue in repairing first degree perineal tears. We conducted a noninferiority prospective, randomized, controlled trial comparing adhesive glue with traditional suturing. Each case was evaluated immediately after birth and after the puerperium. The two-sample t-test and the Mann-Whitney nonparametric test were applied to compare quantit...

OBJECTIVE to evaluate the effects of labor stimulation with oxytocin on maternal and neonatal outcomes. METHOD descriptive and analytical study with 338 women who gave birth at a tertiary hospital. Obstetric and neonatal variables were measured and compared in women submitted and non-submitted to stimulation with oxytocin. Statistics were performed using Chi-square test, Fisher exact test, St...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to compare maternal and neonatal morbidity among Somali immigrants, US-born blacks and whites in Washington state. STUDY DESIGN Washington state birth certificate data was linked to hospital discharge records comparing singleton deliveries among Somali immigrants with US-born blacks and whites between 1993 and 2001, in a 1:3 ratio. Outcomes were compare...

INTRODUCTION Perineal hernia may be a long-term complication to conventional abdominoperineal resection or proctocolectomy. We analysed the incidence of post-operative perineal hernia repair and described patient-reported outcome measures (PROMS) after perineal hernia repair. METHODS This was a nationwide retrospective analysis of consecutive Danish patients undergoing conventional abdominope...

Several reports have stressed the complications that may follow cardiac resuscitation (Baringer et al., 1961; Bynum, Connell, and Hawk, 1963; Jude, Kouwenhoven, and Knickerbocker, 1964), but gastric lacerations were not documented until Lundberg et al. (1967) reported their occurrence in 5 patients at necropsy. We report another 4 patients with gastric lacerations at necropsy, and one patient s...

A retrospective study involving 623 twin and 1246 singleton births was conducted to compare the two groups with regard to selected maternal, fetal and labor and delivery characteristics and outcomes. Maternal age and parity were significantly higher for twins. The risks of preterm delivery, arrival in the labor ward in second stage of labor, cesarean births and postpartum haemorrhage were signi...

BACKGROUND Postpartum hemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal mortality worldwide. Vacuum-induced uterine tamponade is a possible alternative approach to balloon tamponade systems for the treatment of postpartum hemorrhage resulting from atony. METHOD In a prospective proof-of-concept investigation of 10 women with vaginal deliveries in a hospital setting who failed first-line therapies f...