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The risk of miscarriage is not likely decreased by discontinuing SSRIs before pregnancy. [65] Some available data suggest that there is a small increased risk of miscarriage for women taking any antidepressant, [66] [67] though this risk becomes less statistically significant when excluding studies of poor quality. [64] [68]
Septic abortion describes any type of abortion (intentional termination or miscarriage), due to an upper genital tract bacterial infection including the inflammation of the endometrium during or after 20 weeks of gestation. [1] The genital tract during this period is particularly vulnerable to infection, and sepsis in most cases is caused by a ...
Complications of pregnancy are health problems that are related to, or arise during pregnancy. Complications that occur primarily during childbirth are termed obstetric labor complications, and problems that occur primarily after childbirth are termed puerperal disorders. While some complications improve or are fully resolved after pregnancy ...
Mental disorders can be a consequence of miscarriage or early pregnancy loss. [1] [2] Even though women can develop long-term psychiatric symptoms after a miscarriage, acknowledging the potential of mental illness is not usually considered. [3] A mental illness can develop in women who have experienced one or more miscarriages after the event ...
It may also increase the risk of miscarriage and stillbirth if an acute infection occurs during pregnancy. Ectopic pregnancy: PID increases the risk of ectopic pregnancy by roughly sixfold ...
Obstetrics. Recurrent miscarriage or recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) is the spontaneous loss of 2-3 pregnancies that is estimated to affect up to 5% of women. The exact number of pregnancy losses and gestational weeks used to define RPL differs among medical societies. [1] In the majority of cases, the exact cause of pregnancy loss is ...
17,900 [4] Postpartum infections, also known as childbed fever and puerperal fever, are any bacterial infections of the female reproductive tract following childbirth or miscarriage. [1] Signs and symptoms usually include a fever greater than 38.0 °C (100.4 °F), chills, lower abdominal pain, and possibly bad-smelling vaginal discharge. [1]
Clinical specimens have yielded an increase in positive tests for parvovirus B19, the CDC said. In June, the proportion of people whose lab results indicated recent infection was 10%. By ...