title: [Postpartum pelvic vein and vena cava thrombosis after water immersion delivery].
abstract: A 26-years old primipara experienced a laparotomy with thrombectomy because of pelvic vein thrombophlebitis and cavathrombosis 18 days after ambulant water-birth. The pelvic vein thrombophlebitis is a potentially life-threatening complication in puerperium and to our knowledge, this is the first case reported after water-birth. Even after ambulant childbirth those rather rare complications are able to appear. To think of such events makes professional help possible in time.
authors.affiliation: Frauenklinik, Thurgauisches Kantonsspital, Münsterlingen.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Raio
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Szoenyi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Brühwiler
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Binswanger
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007084:Iliac Vein / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D007101:Immersion; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011644:Puerperal Disorders / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D017131:Thrombectomy; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*