The primary aim was to determine if sequential administration of oxytocin and nitroglycerin is effective for management of retained placenta when performed by obstetricians with no experience of the method. Secondary aims were to examine possible adverse effects of nitroglycerin. One hundred and five women with retained placenta were randomly selected to receive either 1 mg nitroglycerin or pla...

As early as 1901, DeLee described a hemophilic-like condition of the blood in abruptio. Dieckmann in 1936, studying a group of patients with abruptio, found fibrinogen concentration below the normal levels in seven out of eleven cases, and in three where the fibrinogen level was below 50 mg./100 c.c. During the past few years hypofibrinogenemia has been shown to exist in other conditions apart ...

BACKGROUND Hope has therapeutic value because it enables people to cope with uncertainty about their future health. Indeed, hope, or therapeutic optimism (TO), is seen as an essential aspect of the provision and experience of medical care. The role of TO in clinical research has been briefly discussed, but the concept, and whether it can be transferred from care to research and from patients to...

AIMS Retained placenta (RP) is a major cause of obstetric haemorrhage. The aim of the study was to obtain a better understanding of the mechanisms that cause some placentas to become retained, while most are not. METHODS 23 RPs clinically diagnosed as placenta adhesiva and 10 control placentas (CPs) were examined for differences in trophoblast fusion into multinucleated trophoblastic giant ce...

The present research experiment was carried out to evaluate the effect of GnRH and PGF2α administration on post partum fertility in retained placenta buffaloes. Total thirty six Murrah buffaloes with retained placenta condition were selected and the placentas were removed manually and intra-uterine boluses were kept (3 boluses per day for 3 consecutive days post-partum) in experimental buffaloe...

Intra-umbilical injection of oxytocin has been used to hasten placental separation in retained placenta. A randomised controlled trial was done on 35 consequent women who fulfilled the criteria for retained placenta at the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology Ipoh Hospital. Nineteen patients who were recruited into the study group received intraumbilical injection of 301U oxytocin in 27mls sa...

I was called in recently to see a case of retained placenta in a Hindu multipara, aged about 22 years. She had been delivered of a male child three days ago but (no placenta had not been expelled. The patient and her relatives thought that it would come out spontaneously. When they saw that it was not expelled they called a <lm, who along with others roughly handled her without any antiseptic p...

We read the presented case of retained invasive placenta mimicked gestational choriocarcinoma (GCC)with an enthusiasm [1]. We thought if this is a case of GCC, which sign should be the leading sign. The clinical diagnosis ofGCC is challenging inmost of the cases. The predominant symptom is abnormal vaginal bleeding. Serum human chorionic gonadotropin beta (β-hCG) measurement and doppler ultraso...