aIndian Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur, India. Correspondence to S D Gupta (e-mail: [email protected]) Introduction When I look back upon the past, I can only dispel the sadness which fall upon me by gazing into that happy future when the infection will be banished .... The conviction that such a time must inevitably sooner than later arrive will cheer my dying hour. So wrote I...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship of interpregnancy interval with maternal and offspring outcomes. DESIGN Retrospective study with data from the Perinatal Information System database of the Latin American Centre for Perinatology and Human Development, Uruguay. SETTING Latin America, 1990-2009. POPULATION A cohort of 894 476 women delivering singleton infants. METHODS During 1990-2...

Group B Streptococcus (group B Strep or GBS) is the UK's commonest cause of severe early-onset (up to six days) infection in babies. GBS is a normal body commensal, colonising the gut and vagina. GBS may pass to babies around childbirth; although most are unaffected, some develop severe infection. GBS is also a recognised cause of stillbirth and puerperal sepsis. Most GBS infection in babies is...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine the risks of severe acute maternal complications associated with cesarean section without medical indication. METHODS A systematic review was carried out with meta-analysis. The literature search was performed systematically, in multiple stages, in the PubMed, Lilacs, and Web of Science databases using the following descriptors: (postpart...

surgery has led to a reduction in febrile morbidity rates (Qvistad et al. 1983; Crowley et al. 2001). If screening is not practical, many clinics and practitioners routinely treat all women receiving surgical abortion for chlamydia presumptively and, in high prevalence areas, would treat for gonorrhea as well. Intrauterine infection may be the result of hematogenous or ascending infection. For ...

was completely recovered from, and she was quite well for a couple of days. On the ninth day after delivery, her medical attendant found her with a temperature of 105?; there was much tenderness on the right side, and the uterus was much enlarged. On the same night she was removed to the Buchanan Ward of the Royal Infirmary. Condition on Admission.?Expression of face, anxious ; malar flush, wel...

P?st-graduate Student, Rotunda Hospital, Dublin. Pattern1 January 1921 to June 1927, 11,638 Accord Were confi,1C(l in the Rotunda Hospital. Britj 1 lnA t? one of the standards of the 1 Medical Association, 675 of them were morbid during the puerperinm. Only two cases were admitted for treatment of sepsis which were not attended by the hospital. This gives a morbidity rate of 5.8 per cent, durin...