The following notes of a case of puerperal convulsions will, I trust, prove of great professional interest to the many readers of your journal owing to the unusual nature of some of the symptoms therein recorded. Some time ago I was hurriedly called in to see a Bohra woman, suffering from violent puerperal convulsions. She was a young, well-built woman of 2-3 years, in her tenth month of pregna...

100 consecutive out patients with onset of Psychiatric illness within 40 days of child birth were studied by using Indian Psychiatric Interview Schedule and a specially designed Proforma. It was found that post partum psychiatric syndromes occurred most frequently in patients less than 25 years of age. Stress of Physical illness was present in a considerably high number of patients (74%). In 66...

Background: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy affect about 10% all pregnant women around the world. Eclampsia is an important predictor organ dysfunctions and mortality. This study looks into pulmonary cardiovascular complications occurring in eclampsia.Methods: The prospective observational included 90 cases admitted to labor room with a diagnosis eclampsia (antepartum, intrapartum postpartu...

MANY unusual problems confront the surgeon working overseas. Solutions may not be easy to obtain from the literature available locally. In Britain, with excellent obstetric care universally available, chronic puerperal inversion of the uterus is hardly ever seen nowadays, but elsewhere one may occasionally have to treat this condition. British authors quote an incidence of about i in 30,000 del...

A 16 year old Chinese female with puerperal ovarian vein thrombophlebitis following uneventful vaginal delivery is reported. This infrequent, but potentially fatal, complication in the febrile postpartum patient may present as a surgical emergency. Non-invasive diagnostic procedures and conservative treatment with heparinization and antibiotics have been suggested. However, early exploratory la...

MANY unusual problems confront the surgeon working overseas. Solutions may not be easy to obtain from the literature available locally. In Britain, with excellent obstetric care universally available, chronic puerperal inversion of the uterus is hardly ever seen nowadays, but elsewhere one may occasionally have to treat this condition. British authors quote an incidence of about i in 30,000 del...

Acute aortic dissection may indeed be a rare complication of pregnancy, and the majority of aortic dissections usually occur during the third trimester of pregnancy. Most aortic dissections occur as a result of systemic hypertension or connective tissue disorders. Without any treatment, more than 50% of patients die within the initial 48 hours, and the 3-month mortality rate is as high as 90%. ...

Postpartum is a crucial period for a mother. During this period a mother is going through the physiological process of uterine involution and at the same time adapting to her new role in the family. Many postpartum complications occur during this period. Among the important obstetric morbidities are postpartum hemorrhage, pregnancy related hypertension, pulmonary embolism and puerperal sepsis. ...

BACKGROUND Maternal mortality is highest in sub-Saharan Africa. In Uganda, the WHO- MDG 5 (aimed at reducing maternal mortality by 75 % between 1990 and 2015) has not been attained. The current maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in Uganda is 438 per 100,000 live births coming from 550 per 100,000 in 1990. This study sets out to find causes and predictors of maternal deaths in a tertiary University ...