The micro-organism Mycoplasma hominis is a common commensal of the female genital tract; the organism is found in the vagina and cervical canal of 56 per cent of women attending obstetric and gynaecological clinics (McCormack et al. 1973). It has been implicated as a pathogen in cases of puerperal sepsis (Russell and Fallon 1970; Solomon et al. 1973), particularly after traumatic vaginal delive...

We report a case of an infantile hemiplegia seizure syndrome (IHSS) that presented with intractable reflex audiogenic startle epilepsy which in itself is an uncommon form of seizure disorder. Peri-insular hemispherotomy provided complete seizure control. Also of particular interest was that this syndrome resulted from an iatrogenic brain injury sustained during the course of a caesarian section...

Ovarian Remnant syndrome (ORS) is the presence of residual ovarian tissue after an oophorectomy was performed whether associated with a hysterectomy or not. We report case 39-year-old woman past surgical history total abdominal and left salpingo-oophorectomy indication placenta accreta incidentally discovered during caesarian section. The patient presented pelvic pain diagnosed ORS. She success...

Case Report Our patient, the second of a set of twins, was a Chinese baby girl delivered small for gestational age at 28+3 weeks via emergency caesarian section with a birth weight of 730 g. The pregnancy was complicated by twin-twin transfusion with discrepant growth and maternal hyperthyroidism. A previous sibling had no history of GBS infection but the mother was not screened for GBS via vag...

A healthy 32-year-old female presented with NSTEMI 2 weeks following an uneventful pregnancy and caesarian section. Emergent cardiac catheterization demonstrated a non-stentable coronary artery dissection (Figs. 1 and 2, and Videos 1 and 2). She was treated with CABG (LIMA to LAD) and made an uneventful post-operative recovery. Fig. 1. RAO angiographic view showing the dissected LAD with dilute...

pedunculated chorangioma is extremely rare type of chorangioma. to the best of our knowledge, no case has been reported in indian literature. we report one such rare case in a twenty two year old primi gravida who delivered a full term live female baby by lower section caesarian section (lscs). gross examination revealed a nodular mass attached to the placenta by a pedicle. histopathological ex...