Open AccessEmergency peripartum hysterectomy: Incidence, indications, risk factors and outcome
Author(s) -
Lovina Machado
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
north american journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2250-1541
pISSN - 1947-2714
DOI - 10.4297/najms.2011.358
Subject(s) - uterine atony , medicine , hysterectomy , placenta previa , obstetrics , uterine rupture , incidence (geometry) , pregnancy , atony , maternal death , gynecology , uterus , surgery , population , placenta , physics , optics , fetus , environmental health , biology , genetics
Peripartum hysterectomy is a major operation and is invariably performed in the presence of life threatening hemorrhage during or immediately after abdominal or vaginal deliveries.