PURPOSE Despite the high prevalence of back pain and its subsequent effects in post-partum women, intervention programs are scarce. The purpose of this study was to test the effects of a back-pain-reducing program on post-partum women who experienced low-back pain during pregnancy. METHODS A non-equivalent control-group pretest-posttest design was used. Pregnant women who attended a hospital ...

A patient with post-partum thyroiditis is described. She was a 22 year old with a negative family history of autoimmune thyroid disease who was noted to have a high titre of antithyroid microsomal antibody during pregnancy. She developed mild hyperthyroidism 8 weeks post-partum but at 12 weeks she had a mildly painful enlarged thyroid gland. At 20 weeks post-partum she had severe thyroidal pain...

Post- partum hemorrhage (PPH) is an obstetrical emergency with rising incidence, and a major cause of maternal morbidity. We sought to find prominent risk factors for early PPH in patients vaginal vs. cesarean deliveries (CD). A population-based retrospective cohort study was conducted which all singleton occurring between 1991 2016 at tertiary medical center were included. Risk (occurring with...

OBJECTIVE To describe the effect of vaginal delivery with no clinically recognized sphincter tear on endosonographic anal sphincter morphology and sphincter pressure and to relate endosonographic results to anal sphincter pressure and anal incontinence score. STUDY DESIGN Thirty-two nullipara underwent anal endosonography and anal manometry in the third trimester of pregnancy, 2 weeks and 6 m...

Supraventricular tachycardias are the most commonly encountered arrhythmias during and shortly after pregnancy. This case report describes several ECG-based diagnostic considerations and briefly reviews the current standards of care.

The experiment was conducted to measure the effects of restricting dietary intake on LH release following a GnRH injection during the post-partum period in nursing cows. Eighteen multiparous Charolais cows were fed a low ration from 45 days pre-partum to 45 days post-partum, and received an intravenous injection of synthetic GnRH (55 micrograms) at 5, 15 and 30 days post-partum. Plasma LH conce...

Background: Repeat caesarean sections are known to be a cause of significant morbidity in both intra and post-operative period. The challenges faced by the surgeon may include adhesions, difficulty delivery foetus, visceral injury bleeding. recovery marred problems such as post-partum haemorrhage, febrile morbidity, wound infections after effects intra-operative injury. It is these issues that ...

INTRODUCTION Septic arthritis is rare in the post-partum period. This is the first case of a post-partum staphylococcal septic arthritis of the knee reported. CASE PRESENTATION This report describes a lady who developed symptoms of septic arthritis of the knee within one month of giving birth. CONCLUSION The management of septic arthritis does not differ from standard practice when encounte...

The breast endures vast changes during reproductive phases of a woman's life (puberty, pregnancy, lactation, post-partum involution, post-menopausal involution). Each phase uniquely shapes cancer susceptibility, formation, and progression. Although pregnancy at a young age decreases lifetime breast cancer risk, the first five years following pregnancy at any age are associated with increased br...