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Fatal post-cesarean endometritis: report of two Alabama cases
1Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, Birmingham 35205-3498, USA.
Alabama Medicine : Journal of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama
|April 1, 1995
Abstract:
Postpartum endometritis remains a major cause of morbidity in the puerperium with a fatal outcome on occasion. We present two cases of fatal, post-cesarean endometritis which occurred within a fifteen month period in Alabama. We discuss the features of endometritis including pathophysiology, causative organisms, risk factors and complications.