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ACUTE URIN ARY TRACT I NFECTION: Th i s d i agnos is was aede
clinically I n 18 SUbjects seen at fallOY- up . One other
indiv idual who was well when seen had a medi cal record of
bei ng: t r ea t ed f or this cooplication , and one pat ient
hos pi t alise d was fo r th is reason. In all 20 of 383 subjects
had acute urinary tract i nf ect i on pos tpartullI, an i ncidence
rate of 52.2 pe r 1000 deliveries.
The i nci dence of compla ints of dysuria alone however, was
about f iv e t imes hi gher in t he s't udy popula tion, 259.0 per
1000 delive ries.
BREAST AND NIPPLE INFECTIONS: Ma s t i tis an d/or brea st abscess
occurred in fi ve patients, giving: an i ncidence of 13. 1 per
1000 deliveries . Nippl e i nflalllaat i on was obse rv ed in 30 other
i ndi vi duals and i n two SUbj ect s with mastitis , giving an
incidence r ate of 89 per 1000 deliveries f or nipp le disorders.
VEN OUS TKROMBOSIS/ THROHBOPHLEBITIS: Thre e sUbjects out of 383
were ide ntified clini cally as havi ng this di sease
complication, wtll ch gives an i ncidence r ate for t he disorde r
of 7.8 per 1000 deliveries for this stu dy sample . s ince th e
vascula r thrombotic l esio ns are difficul t co nditio ns t o
diag nose clinically, i t is ver y likely ther ef ore that this
inc i dence i s understated.