The obstetric and anaesthetic problems of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome are discussed. A new unclassified type of the syndrome is described. The possibility of bleeding presents a serious challenge for both the obstetrician and the anaesthetist. A detailed medical history, including family history, are important in determining the method of anaesthesia since blood coagulation tests are usually normal....

A young parous female of 30 years of age presented to the Department of Gynecology with presenting complaint of lower abdomen pain with recent two episodes of Pilimiction (Figure 1) and burning sensation. There was no history of hematuria or colour change in urine. Menstrual cycles were regular with non complicated previous obstetric history. Clinical examination showed no major upper abdominal...

In February 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sponsored a workgroup meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, on the use of family medical history information in pediatric primary care and public health. The meeting focused on pediatric topics as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Family History Public Health Initiative. One outcome of the meeting was a series of publi...

conclusions our review demonstrated that a pregnant lady suspected of aa poses a great clinical challenge to surgeons, as far as scoring systems are almost unreliable. positive imaging prior to surgery is warranted, in order to avoid a nontherapeutic surgery which is always associated with high morbidity rates. introduction acute appendicitis (aa) is one of the most common differential diagnose...

A condition known as preeclampsia is a pregnancy-related problem that carries with it the risk of death. Those pregnant women who have history obstetric complications 1,275 times greater than those do not such history. This was shown by fact correlation exists between two different groups. The presence or absence pregnancy in woman may an impact on whether she at getting diabetes. There has bee...

BACKGROUND Obstetric fistulas in developed countries are infrequent and have been associated with instrumental vaginal delivery, manual removal of placenta and surgical complications during caesarean section. We present the diagnosis and treatment of an obstetric fistula of patient without clear risk factors in a developed country. CASE REPORT The case presented is of a 37 weeks pregnant with...

Obstetric fistula usually originates from obstructed labor or, less often, from invasive maneuvers on the genital tract or the pregnant uterus. Overall, it is a rare finding in the obstetric practice of high income countries. In this report we describe the case of a successful term pregnancy in a patient with a history of recurrent late miscarriage due to a large cervical fistula of traumatic o...

Traumatic cloaca is a devastating condition usually secondary to massive obstetric injury with perineal diastasis. Primary repairs are rarely performed and often fail when performed due to hematoma, infection or excessive tissue tension. Methods: We present a case of immediate repair of traumatic cloaca in a 22 year old female with a history of self inflicted traumatic cloaca sustained 8 hours ...

BACKGROUND AND METHODS To identify whether or not a history of assisted reproductive technology (ART) is associated with the low incidence of Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) infection in pregnant women, we reviewed the obstetric records of the Japanese women aged 35 - 42 years. RESULTS The prevalence of CT in the pregnancies without ART was 1.1% (28/2,632) using nucleic acid amplification tests, w...

We studied the effect of previous induced and spontaneous abortion on gestational duration in subsequent pregnancies in 12 obstetric departments in the Netherlands. Only primiparae were studied. Of 504 women who had had a previous induced abortion, 18 (3.6%) delivered before 32 weeks' gestational age. Forty of 1313 women with a history of spontaneous abortion (3.0%) and 259 of 12 678 women with...