9-EMERGENCY PERIPARTUM HYSTERECTOMY: EXPERIENCE AT BASRAH MATERNITY AND CHILDREN HOSPITAL

Emergency peripartum hysterectomy: 16-year experience of a medical hospital.

BACKGROUND We conducted this retrospective study to evaluate the outcomes and indications of emergency peripartum hysterectomy (EPH) as a life-saving procedure. METHODS We analyzed a series of 140 cases of EPH, between January 1993 and December 2008 in our clinic, retrospectively. The data were collected from the patients' files. The incidence, demographic characteristics, risk factors, indic...

Emergency Peripartum Hysterectomy

Emergency peripartum hysterectomy

Objectives: To review the incidence, risk factors, indications, outcomes, and complications of emergency peripartum hysterectomy performed after cesarean section and vaginal deliveries. Study design: A nine years retrospective study of all those cases who underwent peripartum hysterectomy at Patan Hospital from the year 1997 to 2005. Results: There were total 28 cases of emergency peripartum hy...

Emergency peripartum hysterectomy in a tertiary hospital in southern Nigeria

INTRODUCTION Emergency peripartum hysterectomy, a maker of severe maternal morbidity and near miss mortality is an inevitable surgical intervention to save a woman's life when uncontrollable obstetric haemorrhage complicates delivery. This study was conducted in order to determine the incidence, types, indications and maternal complications of emergency peripartum hysterectomy at the University...

Peripartum hysterectomy: two years experience at Nelson Mandela Academic hospital, Mthatha, Eastern Cape South Africa.

BACKGROUND Obstetric haemorrhage is the leading direct cause of maternal mortality in South Africa. OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence, indications, associations and maternal outcomes of emergency peripartum hysterectomies. METHODS A descriptive and retrospective analysis of patients who had peripartum hysterectomy between 1(st) February 2007 and 31(st) January 2009 in Nelson Mandela Acad...