Reproductive tract infection and health seeking behaviour of eligible couples--an appraisal.

A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in Paschim Midnapur district of West Bengal during March 2009 to August 2009 to find out the prevalence of reproductive tract infection and the health seeking behaviour. The respondents were 2000 currently married women (15-49 years age group) selected by stratified multistage random sampling. House to house visit and data collection by interview technique was done by faculty members of community medicine of Calcutta National Medical College and other medical colleges through predesigned and pretested schedule.

Current trends in delivery of eclampsia patients.

This study tried to identify if there was any current trend in delivering eclampsia patients in terms of choice of mode and time of delivery and reasons for such choice and whether they influenced outcomes. Initial assessment findings, choice of mode of delivery, delivery outcomes were analysed in 608 consecutive cases of antepartum and intrapartum eclampsia, caesarean section rate was very high (71.05%).

Unilateral lower limb oedema in pregnancy.

A 21 years old lady was admitted with severe pain and swelling of left lower limb in a pregnancy of 34 weeks of period of gestation. On examination there was pitting oedema of the whole left lower limb with extreme tenderness. Doppler USG of left femoral vein showed a thrombus in the process of recanalisation and no significant flow was demonstrated inside the lumen and USG for foetoplacental profile showed a single live foetus of gestational age 34 weeks.

A study of prophylactic use of 15-methyl prostalglandin F2alpha in the active management of third stage of labour.

To compare active management of third stage of labour with 15-methyl prostaglandin F2alpha (PGF2alpha) and conventional management with methylergometrine as prophylaxis for postpartum hemorrhage, a randomised comparative study was carried out at Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata on 100 women. They were randomly allotted to one of the two groups. Group A included 50 women who received 15-methyl PGF2alpha (125 microg) intramusculary at the time of delivery of the anterior shoulder and group B included 50 women who underwent conventional management of the third stage of labour where methylergometrine 0.