uterine rupture/edema

OBJECTIVE Uterine rupture is potentially a life-threatening condition for both mother and infant. In this article, we report a rare occurrence of uterine rupture due to traumatic assisted fundal pressure associated with hydrops fetalis and shoulder dystocia. METHODS A 29-year-old woman was admitted

Uterine rupture in the developing world remains a significant problem. We treated 45 such cases. The predisposing factors included cephalopelvic disproportion (62%), grand multiparity (33%), previous cesarean section (24%), placental pathology (15%) and abnormal presentation (20%). The factors

BACKGROUND Uterine anomalies causing fetal complications are very rarely encountered in obstetric practice and thus pose a diagnostic dilemma. METHODS A multigravid patient attended the clinic for an ultrasound examination in the third trimester following a recent hospital admission for abdominal

The increasing rate of elective and indicated caesarean sections worldwide has led to new pathologies and management challenges. The number of patients undergoing trial of labor after caesarean section (TOLAC) is also increasing. Three professional societies provide detailed guidelines based on

OBJECTIVE Although most fetal disorders can be treated after birth, a few conditions that predictably lead to fetal or neonatal death, or that progress significantly before birth, are ideally treated prenatally. The number of centers offering fetal therapeutic procedures is gradually increasing

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the preclinical safety and efficacy of the thermal balloon endometrial ablator (TBEA). METHODS Informed consent was taken from all patients for TBEA and hysterectomy at same sitting. TBEA was performed in vivo just before hysterectomy on 6 patients' uteri to determine uterine

BACKGROUND An outbreak of sudden death of pregnant farmed mink in Finland occurred during the busiest whelping period in the spring of 2013. The affected farms were all located in western Finland in a rather narrow geographic area, Ostrobothnia. Dead mink from 22 farms were submitted for laboratory

Thirty-six cases of pregnancy-related complications were studied with plain radiography, ultrasonography (US), computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging alone or in combination. Among the complications diagnosed with these various techniques were venous thromboembolic disorders,

This article briefly reviews the clinical management of emergency conditions likely to be encountered by veterinarians responsible for the reproductive health of mares. The article discusses rectal tears, breeding injuries, uterine torsion, placental hydrops, and prepubic tendon rupture. A major

Assessments of maternal near miss (MNM) are increasingly used in addition to those of maternal mortality measures. The World Health Organization (WHO) has introduced an MNM tool in 2009, but this tool was previously found to be of limited applicability in several low-resource settings. The aim of

BACKGROUND Although death rates are often used to monitor the quality of health care, in industrialized countries maternal deaths have become rare. Severe maternal morbidity has therefore been proposed as a supplementary indicator for surveillance of the quality of maternity care. Our purpose in

OBJECTIVE To assess the most commonly employed diagnostic indicators of severe maternal morbidity (obstetric near-miss). METHODS Review of the literature from January 1989 to August 2008. RESULTS Fifty-one manuscripts met the eligibility criteria, and 96 indicators were utilized at least once.