Cases of Puerperal Disease

Puerperal thromboembolic disease in "high risk" cases.

One hundred obstetric patients were studied for evidence of puerperal thromboembolic disease. Only one case of deep vein thrombosis was detected in patients thought to be in a "high risk" category because of age or operative intervention. Clinical findings were unreliable compared with measurements of (125)I-labelled fibrinogen uptake. Doppler ultrasound flow detection proved a simple screening...

Cases of Puerperal Eclampsia

Two Cases of Puerperal Pleuropneumonia

The following cases of singular interest occurred in my practice in the latter part of last year. As they were observed with a considerable amount of care, and as I cannot but think they are not of very usual occurrence, and as I believe they might serve for encouragement to some medical brother in charge of patients similarly affected, I have deemed it advisable to publish them. It is to be no...

A Series of Cases of "Non-Septic" Puerperal Pyrexia

Three Cases of Puerperal Convulsions Treated by Venesection