%0 Journal Article
%T Aborto s¨¦ptico: s¨ªndrome de Mondor
%A Coronado Mestre
%A Ram¨®n
%A ¨¢lvarez Pineda
%A Ana Bertha
%A Yero Casta£¿eda
%A Maria
%A Matos Ross
%A Osvaldo
%J Revista Cubana de Medicina Militar
%D 2006
%I ECIMED
%X the case of a 21-year-old patient with 12 weeks of gestation that was candidate to pharmacological abortion with misoprostol, according to the protocol of the abortion service of ¡°dr. carlos j finlay ¡± central military hospital , and to the method established to this end, was presented. as it failed, it was decided to perform abortion. a fetus with necrobiosis signs was extracted, and antibiotic treatment was indicated. vaginal bleeding started one hour later with hemodynamic consequences associated with a consumption coagulopathy with important haemolysis that required obstetrical hysterectomy and referring her to the icu. the patient died in less than 24 hours with a picture of multiorgan failure. pathologic anatomy evidenced the presence of cane-shaped gram-positive bacteria, compatible with clostridium perfringes . mondor's syndrome diagnosis was concluded.
%K septic abortion
%K mondor's syndrome.
%U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0138-65572006000400009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en