PUERPERAL PELVIC VEINS AND VENA-CAVA THRO MBOSIS AFTER WATER-BIRTH

Authors
RAIO L SZOENYI A BRUHWILER H BINSWANGER R
Citation
L. Raio et al., PUERPERAL PELVIC VEINS AND VENA-CAVA THRO MBOSIS AFTER WATER-BIRTH, Zeitschrift fur Geburtshilfe und Perinatologie, 201(3), 1997, pp. 102-104
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Pediatrics,"Obsetric & Gynecology
Journal title
Zeitschrift fur Geburtshilfe und Perinatologie → ACNP
ISSN journal
09482393
Volume
201
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
102 - 104
Database
ISI
SICI code
0948-2393(1997)201:3<102:PPVAVT>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
A 26-years old primipara experienced a laparotomy with thrombectomy be cause of pelvic vein thrombophlebitis and cavathrombosis 18 days after ambulant water-birth. The pelvic vein thrombophlebitis is a potential ly life-threatening complication in puerperium and to our knowledge, t his is the first case reported after water-birth. Even after ambulant childbirth those rather rare complications are able to appear. To thin k of such events makes professional help possible in time.