During the years 1959 to 1978 inclusive 2165 women with rheumatic or congenital heart disease had vaginal deliveries at three large Dublin maternity hospitals. There were two (0.09%) cases of puerperal infective endocarditis, neither of which was unequivocally related to preceding childbirth during this period. Routine peripartum antibiotic prophylaxis was not given to either. A questionnaire o...

AmR EXAMINING the reactions of physicians to sporadic, socially disruptive epidemics of cholera, yellow fever, and the plague, historians have concluded that "anticontagionism" characterized medical thought in the first half of the nineteenth century.' That conclusion is not borne out by this study. It is true that well-known figures confronted with the task of explaining the capricious visitat...

A functional health system is a necessary part of efforts to achieve maternal mortality reduction in developing countries. Puerperal sepsis is an infection contracted during childbirth and one of the commonest causes of maternal mortality in developing countries, despite the discovery of antibiotics over eighty years ago. Infections can be contracted during childbirth either in the community or...

ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 6 Number 9 (2017) pp. 1764-1769 Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com The present study was conducted on early postpartum (PP, n=30) crossbred cows under field conditions to evaluate their endometrial cytology, pH and Whiteside test score of genital discharge in relation to fertility post-treatment. The puerperal discharge aspirated was categorized based on the quality ...

From the annual^ reports of the Somerset County Asylum for twenty years, mania, recurrent mania, monomania, and puerperal mania included nearly 53^ per cent, of the admissions of mental disorders; previously distinguished in the Journal, as belonging to the second class of cases of insanity. The actual numbers under the above forms of mania were 595 males and 712 females; from ordinary mania, f...

BACKGROUND Increasingly, women in rural areas in Sudan reported to hospital with puerperal infections. AIMS This study was design to identify the common pathogens causing puerperal infections and their susceptibility to current antibiotics. SUBJECTS AND METHODS We prospectively studied 170 women from January, 2011 through January 2012 attended Hussein Mustafa Hospital for Obstetrics and Gyn...

Although 25-30 grams of calcium is transported into the fetus during pregnancy, it is suggested that the maternal bone might be kept at the same density as in non-pregnant women by measuring serum or urinary calcium concentrations and calcium regulating hormones simultaneously (Ohara et al. Folia Endocrinol., 1986). In this study, the influence of pregnancy on the maternal bone was investigated...

Chlamydia trachomatis was cultured from cervical specimens of 14 (16.1%) of 231 women applying for legal abortion and from 23 (8.7%) of 273 puerperal women. The chlamydial isolation rate was related to the women's age. Of the pregnant and puerperal women under 20 years C trachomatis was isolated in 10% and 24% respectively; in those aged between 20 and 24 years the rates were 8.7% and 10.2% res...