Infections in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Sumita Mehta, Swaraj Batra, Gauri Gandhi
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1Infections in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
2Infections in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Editors Gauri Gandhi MD Professor Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology MAMC and Lok Nayak Hospital, New Delhi Sumita Mehta DGO, DNB Senior Research Associate Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology MAMC and Lok Nayak Hospital, New Delhi Swaraj Batra MS, FICOG Director - Professor and Head Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology MAMC and Lok Nayak Hospital, New Delhi
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4Contributors 6Preface
Infections cause significant morbidity and sometimes mortality in obstetrics and gynaecology as they do in other clinical specialities. Therefore, it is important to have a basic knowledge of the more common causative organisms and their effects on the female genital organs, on the pregnant women and on the foetus and the neonate.
This book describes some of the more important viral, bacterial and parasitic infections relevant to obstetrics and gynaecology.
During pregnancy, some infections have a deleterious effect not only on the pregnant woman but also on the foetus and the newborn. Some viral infections during pregnancy can cause foetal demise and congenital malformations in the foetus. The chapters on viral infections describe these effects on mother and child and also the appropriate counselling and treatment to be given.
The problem of HIV/AIDS has assumed alarming proportions in our country. One chapter has been devoted to HIV in obstetrics and gynaecology and antiretroviral therapy.
Bacterial and parasitic infections need appropriate antimicrobial therapy. This has been described in each chapter. In addition, there is one chapter devoted to antimicrobial therapy in pregnancy, describing the safety profile of these drugs during pregnancy.
Immunisation in pregnancy has been described separately.
The important gynaecological infections like genital tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases and pelvic inflammatory disease have been described in different chapters.
Antibiotic prophylaxis is a very important step to prevent infections in elective or emergency surgery. The last chapter describes the evidence based guidelines regarding antibiotic prophylaxis in obstetrics and gynaecology.
We hope this book will help the practising clinicians to treat infections and also judiciously use antibiotics to prevent infections.
Gauri Gandhi
Sumita Mehta
Swaraj Batra
7Acknowledgements
The editors would like to express their gratitude to all the contributing authors who have put in a lot of effort to comprehensively present the latest developments in every topic.
We would also like to thank our families who have given us constant support during preparation of this manuscript.
Last, but not the least, we are extremely grateful to Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd for their co-operation during the compilation of this book.