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Postpartum infections, also known as childbed fever and puerperal fever, are any bacterial infections of the female reproductive tract following childbirth or miscarriage. [1] Signs and symptoms usually include a fever greater than 38.0 °C (100.4 °F), chills, lower abdominal pain, and possibly bad-smelling vaginal discharge . [ 1 ]
In his research, Dr. Sheehan reviewed (through autopsy) the effects of pituitary necrosis on 12 cases of patients that experienced postpartum necrosis. [19] He observed cases where lesions and death occurred during or after pregnancy, as well as cases where death occurred in the late stage of necrosis (years later).
Postpartum blues; Postpartum depression; Postpartum disorder; Postpartum infections; Postpartum psychosis; Postpartum thyroiditis; Pregnancy Outcome Prediction study; Prurigo gestationis; Pruritic folliculitis of pregnancy; Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy; Psychiatric disorders of childbirth; Pubic symphysis diastasis
At my postpartum checkup, I told a nurse about our harrowing experience with RSV and my dwindling milk supply. Big tears fell on my paper gown as I explained how I felt like an absolute failure ...
He died after two weeks, on 13 August 1865, aged 47, from a gangrenous wound, due to an infection on his right hand which might have been caused by the struggle. The autopsy gave the cause of death as pyemia—blood poisoning. [4] Semmelweis was buried in Vienna on 15 August 1865. Only a few people attended the service. [65]
A postpartum disorder or puerperal disorder is a disease or condition which presents primarily during the days and weeks after childbirth called the postpartum period.The postpartum period can be divided into three distinct stages: the initial or acute phase, 6–12 hours after childbirth; subacute postpartum period, which lasts two to six weeks, and the delayed postpartum period, which can ...
Chorioamnionitis, also known as amnionitis and intra-amniotic infection (IAI), is inflammation of the fetal membranes (amnion and chorion), usually due to bacterial infection. [1] In 2015, a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Workshop expert panel recommended use of the term "triple I" to address the heterogeneity of this ...
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