BACKGROUND Mental health is a significant contributor to global burden of disease and the consequences of perinatal psychiatric morbidity can be substantial. We aimed to obtain global estimates of puerperal psychosis prevalence based on population-based samples and to understand how postpartum psychosis is assessed and captured among included studies. METHODS In June 2014, we searched PubMed,...

OBJECTIVE To determine the risk factors and complications of puerperal sepsis. METHODS This was an observational prospective Cohort study conducted from January 2011 to December 2011 at the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences Jamshoro/Hyderabad, Sindh Pakistan. During this study period, all the women who delivered in this hospital or referred ...

exigencies of a country practice allowed. The case may be summarized as one of puerperal eclampsia with albuminuria? spontaneous and easy labour?recovery. The facts of the case merely are recorded, the pathology being avoided as somewhat dangerous ground. On the morning of Sunday, 18th August 1878, about 8 a.m., we received a note from a farmer living some five miles distant, asking us to see h...

Puerperal fever was a devastating disease. It affected women within the first three days after childbirth and progressed rapidly, causing acute symptoms of severe abdominal pain, fever and debility. Although it had been recognized from as early as the time of the Hippocratic corpus that women in childbed were prone to fevers, the distinct name, ‘‘puerperal fever’’ appears in the historical reco...