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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...

Parental leave Postpartum physiological changes Postpartum depression Puerperal disorder Sex after pregnancy Lopez-Gonzalez DM (2023). "Postpartum Care...

Postpartum psychosis (PPP), also known as puerperal psychosis or peripartum psychosis, involves the abrupt onset of psychotic symptoms shortly following...

known as puerperal mastitis, lactation mastitis, or lactational mastitis. When it occurs in non breastfeeding women it is known as non-puerperal or non-lactational...

weeks. Puerperal may also refer to: Puerperal (childbed) fever, a fever caused by uterine infection following childbirth or miscarriage Puerperal disorder...

described as the "saviour of mothers". Postpartum infection, also known as puerperal fever or childbed fever, consists of any bacterial infection of the reproductive...

Historically, puerperal fever was a devastating disease. It affected women within the first three days after childbirth and progressed rapidly, causing...

with antibiotics, according to culture and sensitivity. Maternal death Puerperal fever "Cover of Hacker & Moore's Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology"...

A postpartum disorder or puerperal disorder is a disease or condition which presents primarily during the days and weeks after childbirth called the postpartum...

posited the controversial idea that doctors were capable of carrying puerperal fever from patient to patient. Holmes retired from Harvard in 1882 and...

The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever is an essay written by Oliver Wendell Holmes which first appeared in The New England Quarterly Journal of Medicine...

patients diagnosed with non-puerperal mastitis. Nonpuerperal breast abscesses have a higher rate of recurrence compared to puerperal breast abscesses. There...

An advertisement poster for Hartmann's pads, dated circa 1900. "Accouchement" means childbirth, and "puerperal fever" is a postpartum infection....

anatomy, and were often used in teaching. Ignaz Semmelweis investigated puerperal fever and he discovered how it was caused. He noticed that the frequently...

obstetrician best known for clearly demonstrating the contagious nature of puerperal sepsis (childbirth fever). By systematically recording details of all...

prolapse Uterine inversion Uterine rupture Vasa praevia Uterine atony Puerperal Breastfeeding difficulties Low milk supply Cracked nipples Breast engorgement...

atony, retained placenta or placental fragments, or bleeding disorders. Puerperal sepsis is an ascending infection of the genital tract. It may happen during...

benign and malignant conditions. The most frequent benign conditions are puerperal mastitis, fibrocystic breast changes and mastalgia. Lactation unrelated...

because of high rates of puerperal fever. Until germ theory was accepted in the mid-1800s, it was assumed that puerperal fever was caused by a variety...

hygiene improvement to reduce obstetric infections and mortality from puerperal fever "outraged obstetricians, particularly in Philadelphia". In those...