Is uterine-sparing surgical management of persistent postpartum hemorrhage truly a fertility-sparing technique?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2503-2506

  Blanc, Julie ^a   Courbiere, Blandine ^b,c   Desbriere, Raoul ^a   Bretelle, Florence ^a,c   Boubli, Léon ^a,c   D'Ercole, Claude ^a,c   Carcopino, Xavier ^a,c  

^a HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

^b HÔPITAL DE LA CONCEPTION   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Fertility; hysteroscopy; postpartum hemorrhage; pregnancy; surgery

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ENDOMETRIAL DISEASE; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEMOSTASIS; HEMOSTATIC MULTIPLE SQUARE SUTURING; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTEROSCOPY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; PERSISTENT POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PLACENTA ACCRETA; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRIPLE UTERINE ARTERY LIGATION; UTERINE ATONY; UTERINE SPARING SURGICAL PROCEDURE; UTERUS SYNECHIA;

ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; FRANCE; GYNATRESIA; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LIGATION; PLACENTA ACCRETA; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE ARTERY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959742567     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.01.021     Document Type: Article

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