Septic shock in pregnancy associated with legionella pneumonia: case report

Article Abstract:

A diagnosis of Legionnaires' disease may need to be considered when pneumonia treatments fail in pregnant women. A woman who was 35 weeks pregnant was hospitalized with severe abdominal pain, fever, and low blood pressure. She was delivered of a baby boy by emergency cesarean section. Broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy did not prevent septic shock. Legionella pneumophila was identified, and she was treated with high doses of erythromycin. The infant required surgery to repair a bowel perforation, perhaps the result of intrauterine infection. The source of the Legionnaires' disease may have been a swamp cooler unit.

Health aspects, Causes of, Complications and side effects, Septic shock, Legionnaires' disease

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Ultrasonographic detection of ureteral jets in normal pregnancy

Article Abstract:

Using ultrasound imaging to detect ureteral jets in pregnant women can help identify those who have kidney stones. Ureteral jets occur when urine passes through the ureters on its way to the bladder. If there is a kidney stone, fewer jets will pass through one ureter than the other. Researchers used ultrasound to measure the number of ureteral jets in 125 pregnant women and to detect kidney stones. Women without kidney stones had a similar number of jets passing through the left and right ureter, but women with kidney stones had more jets passing through the left ureter.

Measurement, Medical examination, Physiological aspects, Kidney stones, Urine, Ureters, Ureter

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The capture rate of at-risk term newborns for early-onset group B streptococcal sepsis determined by a risk factor approach

Article Abstract:

Current guidelines for detecting newborn babies at risk of group B streptococcal infection would miss over half of them. Of 49 babies out of 46,959 births who tested positive for streptococcal infection, only 18% were born prematurely, and only 30% of the mothers had ruptured membranes longer than 18 hours or a temperature greater than 100 degrees or both.

Streptococcal infections, Diseases, Infants (Newborn), Neonatal diseases

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