751: Predicting need for hysterectomy in puerperal group a strep infection

Puerperal and intrapartum group A streptococcal infection.

OBJECTIVE To determine the demographic and clinical variables characteristic of non-epidemic intrapartum or puerperal group A streptococcal (GAS) infection. METHODS The records of 47 patients diagnosed with intrapartum or puerperal GAS infection over a 6 1/2 year period at Hadassah-University Hospital-Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem were reviewed. Data regarding 25,811 women, the general population of ...

Article by Dr. Anderson focuses on Group A Strep infection in pregnancy.

Hysterectomy – need of a paradigm shift

The first elective vaginal hysterectomy was performed in 1883 by C. Langerbeck. It took another 50 years for the first abdominal subtotal hysterectomy which was done by Charles Clay of Manchester. Ernst Wertheim performed the first radical hysterectomy for cervical cancer in 1898, the same year in which Marie Curie discovered Radium, the other modality of treatment for the same condition. In 19...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

Abdominal Hysterectomy for Acute Puerperal Metritis and Acute Salpingitis, with Record of a Successful Case

The question of operative interference in puerperal infection is a very difficult one in many instances, and at the same time it is one of the highest importance. It is indeed comparatively seldom that one would be justified in performing hysterectomy in such cases, and yet there are occasions, as in the one I am about to record, where life can be saved by the procedure. Schultze, in 1886, laid...