The Back Alley Revisited: Sepsis after Attempted Self-Induced Abortion

While unsafe abortions have become rare in the United States, the practice persists. We present a 24-year-old female with a 21-week twin gestation who presented to the emergency department with complications of an attempted self-induced abortion. Her complicated clinical course included sepsis, chor...

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Autores principales: Saultes, Teresa A, Devita, Diane, Heiner, Jason D.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2009
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Genitourinary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2791734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20046250
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description While unsafe abortions have become rare in the United States, the practice persists. We present a 24-year-old female with a 21-week twin gestation who presented to the emergency department with complications of an attempted self-induced abortion. Her complicated clinical course included sepsis, chorioamnionitis, fetal demise, and a total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy for complications of endomyometritis. We discuss unsafe abortions, risk factors, and the management of septic abortion. Prompt recognition by the emergency physician and aggressive management of septic abortion is critical to decreasing maternal morbidity and mortality.
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spelling pubmed-27917342009-12-31 The Back Alley Revisited: Sepsis after Attempted Self-Induced Abortion Saultes, Teresa A Devita, Diane Heiner, Jason D. West J Emerg Med Genitourinary While unsafe abortions have become rare in the United States, the practice persists. We present a 24-year-old female with a 21-week twin gestation who presented to the emergency department with complications of an attempted self-induced abortion. Her complicated clinical course included sepsis, chorioamnionitis, fetal demise, and a total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy for complications of endomyometritis. We discuss unsafe abortions, risk factors, and the management of septic abortion. Prompt recognition by the emergency physician and aggressive management of septic abortion is critical to decreasing maternal morbidity and mortality. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2009-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2791734/ /pubmed/20046250 Text en Copyright © 2009 the authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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title_short The Back Alley Revisited: Sepsis after Attempted Self-Induced Abortion
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