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HIV Infections/prevention & control , Health Policy , Mass Screening/methods , Pregnancy Complications, Infectious/prevention & control , Prenatal Diagnosis/methods , Australia/epidemiology , Female , HIV Infections/epidemiology , Humans , Practice Guidelines as Topic , Pregnancy , Pregnancy Complications, Infectious/epidemiologyABSTRACT
Female sterilization as an interval, postabortal or postpartum procedure, is one of the most widely employed contraceptive techniques on a global basis. The short-term complications of sterilization, which include intra- and extrauterine pregnancies, are well researched and documented. The figures for long-term complications, including ectopic pregnancy, are much less reliable as the follow-up rates diminish as time passes after sterilization. Three cases of tubal pregnancy that occurred long after interval sterilization are presented as a warning against the assumption that long-term complications cannot occur.
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Pregnancy, Ectopic/diagnosis , Sterilization, Reproductive , Adult , Female , Humans , Middle Aged , Pregnancy , Time FactorsSubject(s)
Hematoma/therapy , Liver Diseases/therapy , Pregnancy Complications/therapy , Adult , Female , Humans , Pregnancy , Rupture, SpontaneousABSTRACT
Five cases of gall bladder disease complicating pregnancy are presented. The importance of antenatal cholecystosonography as a safe, simple, noninvasive diagnostic and screening test is stressed.