Non-puerperal inversion of the uterus is a rare clinical problem. Mostly diagnosis is difficult in gynecological cases. In majority of cases fundal fibroid causing inversion is the cause. Treatment depends on the associated pathology and type of the inversion. Here we report a rare case of non-puerperal uterine inversion caused by a large fundal leiomyoma in a 45 year old woman causing heavy va...

PURPOSE This study aimed to determine whether MSAF is associated with endometritis after delivery. METHODS This cohort study was conducted from 2012 to 2013 in Kosar Hospital of Qazvin, Iran. All women with cesarean delivery (1239 women) beyond 37 weeks of gestational age participated in the study. Data were collected on rates of endomyometritis, quality of amniotic fluid and were analyzed wi...

Introduction: Metritis is one of the causes of maternal morbidity and there are many risk factors for it. Because of the importance of possible association of meconium-stained amniotic fluid and maternal metritis the present study was done to determine whether meconium stained amniotic fluid (MSAF) is associated with puerperal infection. Methods: In this case-control study 150 women with MSAF a...

There appears to be a resurgence of puerperal sepsis due to a historically important pathogen, group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus.

This work aims at furnishing a systematic, practical, and concise description of the pathology and treatment of the chief organic diseases of the kidneys associated with albuminuria ; and it includes a specially full and systematic description of scarlatinal and puerperal nephritis. After a preliminary chapter on albuminuria, and one on urasmia, the following subjects are treated in order:?Acut...

The historical controversy regarding priority in the discovery of the contagiousness of puerperal fever' persists, most medical historians ascribing it to two nineteenth-century physicians: the American Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)2 and/or the Hungarian Ignaz Semmelweis (I1818-1865).3 That conclusion, however, is not borne out by this study. It is true that Holmes was the first American ph...

Inversion of uterus is a rare clinical condition, if not associated with puerperium or third stage of labour. Non-puerperal uterine inversion usually results secondary to tumour implanted at fundus of the uterus. An unusual case of non-puerperal uterine inversion caused by a large submucosal fundal fibroid is reported where a 39-year-old woman presented with heavy bleeding per vaginum and profu...