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A Darwinian View of Obstructed Labor

Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2003
This essay discusses the evolutionary biology of dystocia. From a Darwinian standpoint, the high frequency of dystocia observed today seems evolutionarily untenable. Hunter-gatherers, most notably the Inuit, appear not to suffer from dystocia. It may be that people from an agriculture-based background are, obstetrically speaking, less well adapted to ...
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Obstructed labor and associated factors among laboring women, Northeast Ethiopia.

2022
Introduction: Obstructed labor is still the major cause of maternal morbidity and mortality, and adverse birth outcomes in low-income countries. This study aims to assess obstructed labour and associated factors among laboring women in Northeast Ethiopia. Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted among 183 labouring mothers at Mekane
Kidist Adamu, Zinabu Fentaw
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Maternal mortality due to obstructed labor

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 1997
An analysis of 36 maternal deaths due to obstructed labor indicates the impact of young maternal age on obstructed labor. These 36 deaths were among the 95 maternal deaths recorded at Mansa General Hospital in Zambia from August 1 1993 to July 31 1995. In 89% of cases of obstructed labor the main cause was cephalopelvic disproportion. 28 women (78%)
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Intrauterine scar causing obstruction to labor

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1962
E. D., a 27-year-old Negro woman, gravida iv, para ii, entered the Kendall Hospital on Nov. 30, 1959, being then about 34 weeks pregnant, having profuse vaginal bleeding. Sterile vaginal examination showed the uterine OS about 3 cm. dilated and covered by the placenta.
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Obstructive shock due to labor-related diaphragmatic hernia

Critical Care Medicine, 1998
To report diaphragmatic hernia as a cause of obstructive shock in the peripartum period.Case report.An adult, 12-bed medical/surgical intensive care unit of a general hospital.One patient who developed an obstructive shock following vaginal labor and was transferred under mechanical ventilation from a local hospital.Central venous pressure, blood ...
J, Ortega-Carnicer, A, Ambrós, R, Alcazar   +2 more
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MALFORMATION OF THE VAGINA OBSTRUCTING LABOR

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1925
Malformations of the vagina obstructing labor are of such rare occurrence that this case has been deemed of sufficient interest to warrant recording. REPORT OF CASE History. —Mrs. E. W., aged 33, a primipara, seen at the Copp Hospital, Sept. 4, 1923, had been in labor five hours.
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The Partograph for the Prevention of Obstructed Labor

Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2009
Obstructed labor is an important cause of maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. The partograph graphically represents key events in labor and provides an early warning system. The World Health Organization partographs are the best known partographs in low resource settings.
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Obstructed labor: using better technologies to reduce mortality

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 2004
AbstractObjective: To identify, from the best available evidence, underutilized and promising technologies that may reduce maternal mortality from obstructed labor. Methods: The author sought systematic reviews of randomized trials, individual randomized trials, and, in the absence of randomized data, non‐randomized studies and clinical consensus. Data
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Sacral tumor obstructing labor

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1955
E T R, STONE, E S, HADRA
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Obstructed Labor

2021
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