Placenta percreta is a rare pathological entity with challenging diagnostic and therapeutic requirements especially for resource limited settings. We present here the case of a 40 year old woman with a per operative diagnosis of placenta accreta during a caesarian section indicated for placenta praevia. We highlight the diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties associated with this condition espe...

Information about a real patient is presented in stages (boldface type) to an expert clinician (Dr Nandita S. Scott), who responds to the information, sharing her reasoning with the reader (regular type). A discussion by the authors follows. A 35-year-old woman, G2P1, with a history of Hashimoto's thyroiditis, vitiligo, and gestational diabetes mellitus presented in the 30th week of pregnancy w...

Correction to: Comparing the Factors Associated with Selecting Normal Vaginal Delivery or Caesarian Section in Nulliparous Women   Hamideh Hassanzadeh Talouki1,  Hossein Faraji Lamoki2, Fershteh Khatty Dizaabadi3,  Jamshid Yazdani Charati4   MSc in Educational Mannagement, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran General Practitioner, Ghaemshahr Health Network, Deputy ...

There is an increased risk of thromboembolism, anticoagulant-related hemorrhage, fetal-wastage and congestive cardiac failure in pregnant women with mechanical heart valves. In order to have a good outcome, the care of such patients must necessarily be multidisciplinary and in a well- equipped centre with adequate support services .One such patient who had mechanical mitral and aortic valves re...

PURPOSE to compare delivery and pregnancy follow-up among adolescent and non-adolescent pregnant women whose delivery occurred in a tertiary hospital from Região de Lisboa (Portugal). METHODS retrospective study with 10,656 deliveries. Pregnancy follow-up, delivery type, need of episiotomy and severe lacerations, Apgar index at the fifth minute and the delivery weight have been evaluated. The...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to examine Helsinki Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and hospital records to determine the incidence and possible complications of out-of-hospital deliveries managed by EMS in Helsinki. METHODS We retrospectively analysed all urgent ambulance dispatches relating to childbirth in Helsinki from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2014 with further analysis of ho...

Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is a worldwide problem. It type of brain injury that occurs when the doesn’t receive enough oxygen or blood flow occurring during pregnancy, labor and delivery in postnatal period. We aimed to investigate characteristics HIE among neonates admitted Sanglah General Hospital. This observational retrospective study was conducted from January 2018 December 2020...

Gossypiboma or textiloma is used to describe a retained surgical swab in the body after an operation that often requires another surgery. This increases morbidity and mortality of the patient, cost of treatment, and medicolegal problems. We are reporting case of a 30-year-old woman who was referred from periphery with acute pain in abdomen. The patient had a surgical history of caesarian sectio...