The breast-feeding practices of a series of postpartum women, who had undergone prior reduction mammaplasty by means of an inferior pedicle approach, are reported in this retrospective study. Also identified are the factors that influenced the decision to breast-feed postoperatively. From a patient pool of 544 individuals who elected to have reduction mammaplasty between 1984 and 1994 (age rang...

We describe the case of a 40-year-old man with spontaneous intracranial hypotension who presented with cervical radiculopathy associated with epidural venous engorgement. Epidural venous engorgement can occur secondary to intracranial hypotension and manifests intracranially as pachymeningeal venous engorgement. In the cervical spine, two cases of epidural venous engorgement due to intracranial...

BACKGROUND Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first six months of infants' lives is a cost effective intervention in saving children's lives and can avert 13 - 15% of the 9 million deaths of children under 5 years old in resource poor settings. However, EBF rates have been shown to be low in resource poor settings, ranging between 20 and 40%. In Tanzania, the prevalence of EBF among infants ...

BACKGROUND To assess the prevalence and factors associated with the occurrence of cracked nipples in the first month postpartum. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study nested in a cohort of mothers living in Feira de Santana, state of Bahia, northeastern Brazil. Data from 1,243 mother-child dyads assessed both at the maternity ward and 30 days after delivery were analyzed. The association b...

Pseudocyesis or phantom pregnancy is a false belief of being pregnant that associated with objective signs and reported symptoms pregnancy, which may include abdominal enlargement, reduced menstrual flow, amenorrhea, subjective sensation fetal movement, nausea, breast engorgement secretions, labor. Though it very rare condition, often seen in women undergoing fertility treatment developing coun...

Breastfeeding is a natural event that occurs after childbirth for woman which beneficial both mother and baby. problems can occur during the puerperium or lactation are breast engorgement also called milk dams. Breast dams due to superior lactiferous ducts glands not emptied completely, lack of information services provided regarding care. Based on 2017 Indonesian Demographic Health Survey (IDH...

An 18 year old female presented with the history of pain in abdomen, breast engorgement, swelling over both legs and breathlessness for three month. On clinical examination diagnosis of fibroadenoma breast was made. Ultrasonography of abdomen showed bilateral ovarian mass. Bilateral salpingo-ophrectomy was done and specimen was sent for histological examination. Two lobulated solid masses of ti...