Key result
Adequate prenatal and specialized peripartum care remain essential to reduce pathological puerperium complications.
Why the study?
Postpartum challenges and complications cause physiological, pathological, and emotional alterations that can lead to disability or death, requiring better understanding, prevention, and treatment.
Adequate prenatal and specialized medical care are essential to prevent and manage complications of the pathological puerperium, including thromboembolic and psychiatric disorders.
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Supports integrated perinatal care models; leaves open prospective trials to quantify impact on puerperal complications.
With the aim of providing you with more information about the challenges and complications of the postpartum period, which lead to physiological, pathological and emotional alterations, and can even lead to disability or even death of the patient, this thesis aims to present the main causes and complications of the pathological puerperium, caused by: postpartum hemorrhages, infections, changes in the breasts. Furthermore, it is important to highlight the correlation of period- related thromboembolic diseases, as well as the psychiatric disorders faced by these women. In this way, doing a bibliographic review, with the collection of data, a search was carried out in the online databases: PubMed, sciELO, SCIENSE, published and updated literatures that reflect the importance of knowledge on the understanding of the challenges and consequences in postpartum women, as well as the best form of prevention and effective treatment. Furthermore, show that the main way to attempt to reduce complications of the pathological puerperium is by providing adequate prenatal control during pregnancy, with specialized medical care before, during and postpartum.
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Westrepp et al. (2025) conducted a review in Pathological puerperium. Adequate prenatal control and specialized medical care was evaluated. A bibliographic review highlights that adequate prenatal control and specialized medical care before, during, and postpartum are the main ways to reduce complications of the pathological puerperium.
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