Since surgical emergencies in the puerperium are rare, surgeons and obstetricians amass little experience of them. There may be considerable delay in making a diagnosis, firstly, because the abdominal symptoms are thought to be related to the pregnancy, and, secondly, because the signs are rarely convincing in contrast to the symptoms. Any of the common surgical emergencies may occur in pregnan...

PURPOSE Many women experience various emotional disorders during puerperium characterized by high levels of anxiety. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY To analyse the level of anxiety in women during puerperium depending on age, education, marital status, number of pregnancies, route of delivery, and family situation. MATERIAL AND METHODS We enrolled 120 women between day 10 and 15 of puerperium without...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE It is unclear whether the risk of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) is increased during pregnancy, labor, and the puerperium. We compared the risk of aSAH during this period with the risk outside this period. METHODS We included women with aSAH between 18 and 42 years of age (n=244) from our prospectively collected database of patients with subarachnoid hemorrha...

The objective was to determine whether the frequency of flare in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), patients is increased during pregnancy and the puerperium. Seventy-eight pregnancies in 68 SLE patients attending the lupus pregnancy clinic, at St. Thomas' Hospital, during the last 5 yr were included. The pregnancy period and 8 weeks post-delivery were considered. This group was compared with ...

Normal pregnancy associated with many changes in coagulation profile. These changes are important for intrapartum blood loss and also for thromboembolism during pregnancy, labour and puerperium. From various studies it is well known that quantitative and qualitative changes in platelets play an important part in thrombotic and haemorhagic states. So present study aimed at to find out any quanti...

Much attention in the literature has recently been paid to women's issues in epilepsy but most of the literature stops in the delivery room or at the first moment of suckling. Although it is commonly supposed that a woman who continues to have active epilepsy during the puerperium will pose a risk to her child, little assessment of how great a risk this is has been carried out. We present an au...

BACKGROUND Women with severe pre-eclampsia/eclampsia are at risk of developing chronic hypertension in future. Chronic hypertension may manifest initially as persistent hypertension at the end of the puerperium. The objective was to determine the incidence and maternal biochemical, hematological and socio-demographic risk factors for persistent hypertension in patients with pre-eclampsia/eclamp...

Whether or not pregnant women with a previous episode of venous thromboembolism (VTE) should receive antithrombotic prophylaxis is a matter of debate. In order to estimate the rate of recurrent deep venous thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism (PE) during pregnancy and puerperium we retrospectively investigated a cohort of 1104 women with previous VTE; after a single DVT or isolated PE, 88 of ...

IN THIS PA1 ER morphologic studies of the hone marrow in uiormal pregnancy and the puerperium are compared w’ith the bone marrow findings in normal nomi-pregnant women of childbearing age. These studies were initiated for the following reasons: 1. Previous studies have show-ui that there is an increase of the total circulating red cell volume and hemoglobin mass of about 20 % duiriuig pregnancy...