BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Low urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) are a common problem during pregnancy. This study aimed to compare changes in the prevalence of LUTS during pregnancy between primiparous and multiparous women. METHODS A chart review of consecutive pregnant women who attended our antenatal clinic from March 2002 to January 2006 was performed. All of the women were asked to respond to a...

Civil Surgeon, Sagaing. A Burmese woman about 37 years of age, a multipara with five previous births, was admitted on 15th March, 1925, with severe and continuous labour pains and a history that she had been in pain for the last five days and had lost some blood at home; she had been attended by a Burmese midwife. On admission her general condition was good. On making an examination per vaginam...

We present here a case of vasa previa in a multipara, diagnosed at the time of her late second trimester ultrasonogram. The patient subsequently underwent an elective cesarean section after 37 weeks gestation, giving birth to a healthy child with an uneventful post-partum, neonatal and infant course. At the time of cesarean section, the incision was gradually deepened in layers through the myom...

I was called in recently to see a case of retained placenta in a Hindu multipara, aged about 22 years. She had been delivered of a male child three days ago but (no placenta had not been expelled. The patient and her relatives thought that it would come out spontaneously. When they saw that it was not expelled they called a <lm, who along with others roughly handled her without any antiseptic p...

A 40-year-old woman, a grand multipara with uncertain gestation, presented with severe, prolonged diarrhoea. She was previously diagnosed to have melanoma. Examination revealed gross ascites with hepatosplenomegaly and uterus corresponding to 29 weeks gestation. An emergency caesarean section confirmed widespread metastases to the ovaries, mesentery and placenta. A viable male foetus was delive...

Ovarian malignancy is the second most common gynaecological malignancy diagnosed during pregnancy. A grand multipara, aged 30 years presented with gestational amenorrhea with abdominal discomfort and breathlessness for last 15 days. Sonographic examination demonstrated a huge, unilocular ovarian cyst and an alive fetus of about 30 weeks gestation. Intraoperative findings were huge left ovarian ...

Mrs P., set. 30, multipara, miscarried for the second time, on 29th March 1874.* Her last menstruation was on 17th December, consequently the foetus was about 3| months old. It was perfectly healthy and well developed. No reason could be assigned by the patient for the accident. On examining the foetus, I found the funis coiled twice round the neck, and under the coiling, it was tightly tied in...

Ileo-sigmoid knotting (ISK) is one of the uncommon causes of bowel obstruction except in sigmoid volvulus belt countries where it is fairly common. Bowel obstruction during pregnancy is also uncommon; when it occurs it is mostly due to adhesions. Obstruction during labor is a very rare phenomenon. In this article we present a case of ISK diagnosed intra operatively in a grand-multipara mother t...