Concealed Accidental Hæmorrhage Treated by Cæsarean Hysterectomy

Note on a Case of Concealed Accidental Hæmorrhage Treated by Hysterectomy 1Read 10th January 1923.

Two years ago we communicated to the Society a short report of a case of concealed accidental haemorrhage which had come under our care in the Maternity Hospital. As the condition is perhaps the most serious complication of pregnancy, and of comparative rarity, we think it right to put on record a short account of a second case which recently came under our conjoint care. This second case, thou...

Treatment of Concealed Accidental Hæmorrhage by Conservative Cæsarean Section *Read 10th May 1923.

TlIE consensus of opinion seems to favour the view that if Cesarean section is performed in cases of concealed accidental haemorrhage, the diseased uterus must thereafter of necessity be removed by hysterectomy. The prevalent belief is that the damage to the uterine wall from interstitial haemorrhages, with the accompanying loss of tone, stretching and paralysis of the muscle fibres precludes t...

Case of Accidental Hæmorrhage

patient in connexion with the Royal Maternity Hospital, and was about the fifth month of her tenth pregnancy. When he, Dr M., was called to see her, about two o'clock a.m., he found the amount of blood lost had been enormous, the whole of the mattress and the bedclothes being drenched. There was no history of injury nor fall, the only possible cause for the separation of the placenta being that...

The Clinical Condition of the Uterine Wall in Concealed Accidental Hæmorrhage *Read 9th June 1926.

As the present communication is introductory to the succeeding paper upon treatment, it deals only with the clinical condition of the uterine muscle from that point of view. Nevertheless, the state of the uterine wall is intimately associated with the problem of the retention of blood within the uterus, and the subject can best be approached by a short consideration of this phenomenon, in expla...

A Case of Cæsarean Section Followed by Sub-Peritoneal Hysterectomy