A functional health system is a necessary part of efforts to achieve maternal mortality reduction in developing countries. Puerperal sepsis is an infection contracted during childbirth and one of the commonest causes of maternal mortality in developing countries, despite the discovery of antibiotics over eighty years ago. Infections can be contracted during childbirth either in the community or...

ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 6 Number 9 (2017) pp. 1764-1769 Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com The present study was conducted on early postpartum (PP, n=30) crossbred cows under field conditions to evaluate their endometrial cytology, pH and Whiteside test score of genital discharge in relation to fertility post-treatment. The puerperal discharge aspirated was categorized based on the quality ...

BACKGROUND Increasingly, women in rural areas in Sudan reported to hospital with puerperal infections. AIMS This study was design to identify the common pathogens causing puerperal infections and their susceptibility to current antibiotics. SUBJECTS AND METHODS We prospectively studied 170 women from January, 2011 through January 2012 attended Hussein Mustafa Hospital for Obstetrics and Gyn...

Although 25-30 grams of calcium is transported into the fetus during pregnancy, it is suggested that the maternal bone might be kept at the same density as in non-pregnant women by measuring serum or urinary calcium concentrations and calcium regulating hormones simultaneously (Ohara et al. Folia Endocrinol., 1986). In this study, the influence of pregnancy on the maternal bone was investigated...

Chlamydia trachomatis was cultured from cervical specimens of 14 (16.1%) of 231 women applying for legal abortion and from 23 (8.7%) of 273 puerperal women. The chlamydial isolation rate was related to the women's age. Of the pregnant and puerperal women under 20 years C trachomatis was isolated in 10% and 24% respectively; in those aged between 20 and 24 years the rates were 8.7% and 10.2% res...

The death of a friend solved a centuries-old, oft-fatal mystery My doctrine is produced in order to banish the terror from lying-in hospitals, to preserve the wife to the husband, and the mother to the child… Ignaz Semmelweis, 1861 TODAY, A VERY LARGE proportion of women giving birth receive antibiotics, potent and sometimes in combination, during their accouchement. Routine prophylaxis is wide...

Objetivo: identificar a prevalência de adesão à consulta puerperal e fatores associados. Método: estudo quantitativo transversal realizado no período agosto dezembro 2019 em um ambulatório hospital ensino interior Minas Gerais, através entrevista análise prontuários. Realizou-se estatística descritiva, também Teste F Regressão Logística. Resultados: participaram 109 puérperas, foi 37,6%. Foram ...

Puerperal infection is a common complication during postnatal period in developing countries. Bacterial species, drug resistance, and genetic characteristics were investigated for a total of 470 isolates from puerperal infections in Bangladesh for a 2-year period (2010-2012). The most common species was Escherichia coli (n=98), followed by Enterococcus faecalis (n=54), Staphylococcus haemolytic...

The objectives of this study were to investigate the associations between peripheral blood neutrophil (PMN) function, energy status, and uterine health in periparturient dairy cows. Data were collected from 83 multiparous Holstein cows. Blood samples for PMN function determination were collected weekly from 1 week prior to calving (week -1) through 4 weeks after calving and again at 8 weeks aft...

OBJECTIVES To compare the maternal and neonatal outcomes between perineal shaving and hair cutting in parturients on admission in labor MATERIAL AND METHOD Five hundred pregnant women with labor pain and no medical or obstetric complications were selected at random on admission to be assigned into two groups at Rajavithi Hospital from 1st November 2001 to 28th February 2002. Forty two women w...