The depression and lability of mood which have been previously reported on the fifth day after childbirth are largely restricted to women with high neuroticism scores. The pattern of day-to-day mood changes is the same after Caesarian section as after vaginal delivery, but there is no 'day five' phenomenon after hysterectomy. Post-partum mood disturbance is less prominent in women who return ho...

We herein report the case of a splenic artery aneurysm with a hepatosplenomesenteric trunk that presented in a pregnant woman. Catheter embolization was not performed due to the wide neck of the aneurysm and its close location to the trunk indicates a high risk of mesenteric trunk thrombosis. We instead performed surgical resection of the aneurysm after successful delivery of the infant by Caes...

on the population covered by the Mexican Social Security Institute (MSSI). The MSSI offers health services to people with a steady job (for example, industrial and services workers, employees, teachers) and their families and attends about 60% of childbearing in Guadalajara. A probabilistic sample was designed, representative of the first live births (25 662) and their respective mothers. Subje...

Reviews Cardini F, Weixin H. Breech presentation may be corrected by moxibustion. JAMA 1998; 280: 1580-4. Primigravidas with breech presentation demonstrated by ultrasound at the 33rd week were treated with moxibustion at BL.67 for 7 days, with a second 7 day course if breech persisted. Foetal movement was more active in the 130 treated with moxibustion than in the 130 controls (p<0.01). By the...

Mycetoma a worldwide disease frequently occurs in the tropics with the highest prevalence being in Africa. Madurella mycetomatis is the main causative organism of human eumycetoma in Sudan. The legs and feet were commonly the sites of the infection. A 22-year-old lady was presented with painful abdominal swelling around a previous caesarian section scar. A provisional diagnosis of obstructed in...

Endometriosis is the abnormal existence of functional uterine mucosal tissue outside the uterus. It is a usual disorder of women in reproductive age, which is mainly located in the female genital tract. We report the cases of two women with endometriosis of the abdominal wall; the first one in the rectus abdominis muscle and the second one in the surgical scar of previous caesarian incision. Th...

Lactococcus lactis cremoris is rarely involved in human pathology. A thirty two-year old pregnant woman with premature rupture of membrane history presented with chorioamnionitis due to L. lactis cremoris. She underwent an emergency caesarian section and was treated with antibiotics including the association of amoxicillin and clavulanic acid. She was completely recovered. This is the first cas...

Isolated rectus abdominis muscle endometriosis is very uncommon with less than 20 case reports being published to date since its first description in 1984 by Amato and Levitt. We report another case of isolated rectus abdominis endometriosis in a 37-year-old patient with a previous caesarian section. We also discuss the diagnostic and treatment particularities in these patients. In our case, th...

Caesarean delivery rates have increased globally during the past three decades. is most important obstetrical procedure performed with complications that consist of postpartum hemorrhage, endometritis, thromboembolic events or incision infections. While surgical site infections (SSIs) complicate 1.9% all surgeries performed, incidence SSIs after caesarean significantly higher, almost 7-10%, con...