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Whooping cough ( / ˈhuːpɪŋ / ), also known as pertussis or the 100-day cough, is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable bacterial disease. [ 1][ 10] Initial symptoms are usually similar to those of the common cold with a runny nose, fever, and mild cough, but these are followed by two or three months of severe coughing fits. [ 1]
Vaginal infection The presence of severe vaginal infections at the time of pregnancy may cause minor antepartum haemorrhaging. For example, the presence of chlamydia , thrush, cervicitis or other infections are all irritants to the vaginal and cervical lining, causing bleeding from those surfaces where the infection is severe.
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. [ 1] Work on ICD-10 began in 1983, [ 2 ...
Maternal death. A mother dies and is taken by angels as her new child is taken away, a grave from 1863 in Striesener Friedhof in Dresden. Maternal death or maternal mortality is defined in slightly different ways by several different health organizations. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines maternal death as the death of a pregnant ...
The International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) was an adaptation created by the US National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and used in assigning diagnostic and procedure codes associated with inpatient, outpatient, and physician office utilization in the United States. The ICD-9-CM is based on the ICD-9 but ...
Pregnancy-associated malaria ( PAM) or placental malaria is a presentation of the common illness that is particularly life-threatening to both mother and developing fetus. [1] PAM is caused primarily by infection with Plasmodium falciparum, [1] [2] the most dangerous of the four species of malaria-causing parasites that infect humans. [3]
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]
When the 25-year-old returned three days later, still bleeding, doctors finally agreed to give her an injection to end the pregnancy. Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, are ...