title: [Sulprostone in the treatment of uterine inertia. Report of 60 cases].
abstract: The serious haemorrhages of the delivery still one of the first causes of maternal mortality. We report an analytical study over a period of 18 months and gathering 60 cases of haemorrhage of the delivery by uterine inertia having imposed the recourse to the sulprostone. The average age of the patients was 31 years, the average parity wasv1.9, the rate of childbirth per Caesarean was 65%. The uterine surdistension was the principal etiology of the uterine inertia. The average time of administration of the sulprostone was 10 mn. No complication related to the product was noted. The effectiveness of the treatment was observed in 93.3% of the cases, with 4 cases of failure.
authors.affiliation: Service A de gynécologie Obstétrique, centre de maternité et de néonatalogie de Tunis.
authors.forename: Nabil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mathlouthi
authors.forename: Béchir
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Khemiri
authors.forename: Mohamed Badis
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Chennoufi
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Elhusseini
authors.forename: Hanene
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ellouze
authors.forename: Mourad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bouchnak
authors.forename: Mohamed Salah
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Hendaoui
authors.forename: Hayene
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Maghrebi
authors.forename: Ezzeddine
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sfar
authors.forename: Hela
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chelli
mesh_terms: D000020:Abortifacient Agents, Nonsteroidal / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000328:Adult; D015232:Dinoprostone / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D014593:Uterine Inertia / Q000188:drug therapy*
chemical_list: D000020:Abortifacient Agents, Nonsteroidal; C016767:sulprostone; D015232:Dinoprostone