[Endometritis after cesarean section: mutually aggravating risk factors]

A retrospective analysis of 1000 case histories of women who delivered by cesarean section has helped define the principal factors of postsurgical endometritis risk. If the risk factors are combined, the potentiality of the disease development increases. The most hazardous combinations of risk factors are as follows: grave gestosis combined with obesity, anemia, and a chronic infection focus, as well as clinical non-correspondence of the maternal pelvis to fetal head, combined with dry labor.