scientific study, observations which tend to throw light on matters legarding which convincing testimony is still wanting are more than welcome to the student and progressive practitioner; and we would particularly invite attention, in. this treatise, to the author's views regarding the pathology and treatment of puerperal eclampsia, that still obscure and dangerous complication of the pregnant...

OBJECTIVE To review our experience with pregnancies in women with myasthenia gravis (MG). STUDY DESIGN Sixty nine pregnancies among 65 women with MG patients managed by our department over 28 years were included. The course of the disease in pregnancy, mode of delivery and postpartal period were evaluated. RESULTS One pregnancy miscarried. In 15% of patients the MG deteriorated in pregnancy...

background: inversion of the uterus is very uncommon. patients may present with pelvic pain, vaginal discharge, or hemodynamic shock. case: we report a case of 35 years old women (virgin) who was admitted with profuse vaginal bleeding and cramps of uterus. in the vaginal examination at litothomy position a mass of 58 cm in size was protruded from the vagina. at first myomectomy was performed a...

Objetivo. Determinar el meconio como factor de riesgo la endometritis puerperal en puérperas post cesárea atendidas Hospital Santa Rosa II-2 durante periodo 2018-2019. Materiales y métodos. Se trata estudio casos controles, que se incluyeron a postcesareadas con sin puerperal, entre 2018 2019. utilizó estadística descriptiva analítica para determinar asociación presencia líquido meconial puerpe...

Peripheral gangrene is, fortunately, a very rare complication of pregnancy and the puerperium. Stein (1916) describes two personal cases and reviews the literature on the subject. In both the cases he describes puerperal sepsis was present ; a severe infection in one patient in whom symmetrical dry gangrene involved both feet. He suggests that the symmetrical gangrene was caused by a thrombus m...

THERE ARE MULTIPLE USES FOR ANTIBIOTICS DURING PREGNANCY: treatment of intercurrent bacterial infections such as urinary or respiratory tract infections, maternal treatment to prevent fetal or neonatal disease, prophylactic treatment for surgical procedures, and treatment of puerperal infections. This report will summarize the current recommendations for the use of antibiotics specifically to r...

OBJECTIVE The efficacy, safety, and antibiotic-related charges for once-daily gentamicin with twice-daily clindamycin were compared with those of thrice-daily dosing of these antibiotics. STUDY DESIGN Patients with puerperal endometritis or with chorioamnionitis in labor assessed to be at risk for endometritis were randomized to receive gentamicin 4 mg/kg intravenously every 24 hours with cli...

of Burt-White and Armstrong,1 however, would appear to call into question the validity of the conclusions offered by previous observers. Burt-White and Armstrong examined the cervical flora in 5 5 pregnant women ; in 40 per cent, of these cases streptococci of different types were isolated, but in only one did the strain present the characters of the streptococcus pyogenes, the common cause of ...

clinical experiments have been conducted since the year 1927 sufficient time has elapsed to treat a large number of cases and estimate the value of the method in preventing puerperal sepsis. To enable you to judge the influence of the treatment as well as the type of case dealt with I have distributed leaflets among the members of this society and for purposes of reference these have been label...

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