Puerperal fever is diagnosed with: * A temperature rise above maintained over 24 hours or recurring during the period from the end of the first to the end of the 10th day after childbirth or abortion. (ICD-10) * Oral temperature of or more on any two of the first ten days postpartum. (USJCMW) Puerperal fever (from the Latin puer, male child (boy)), is no longer favored as a diagnostic category. Instead, contemporary terminology specifies: # the specific target of<unk>  endometritis (inflammation of the inner lining of the uterus), metrophlebitis (inflammation of the veins of the uterus), and peritonitis (inflammation of the membrane lining of the abdomen). # the severity of the<unk>  less serious<unk> (contained multiplication of microbes) or possibly life-threatening sepsis (uncontrolled and uncontained multiplication of microbes throughout the blood stream). Endometritis is a polymicrobial<unk>  It frequently includes organisms such as Ureaplasma, Streptococcus, Mycoplasma, and Bacteroides, and may also include organisms such as Gardnerella, Chlamydia, Lactobacillus, Escherichia, and Staphylococcus. Differential diagnosis A number of other conditions can cause fevers following delivery including: urinary tract<unk> , breast engorgement, atelectasis and surgical incisions, among others.
Postpartum infections
Drugs in pregnancy
Abortion in Europe
Early pregnancy bleeding
Postpartum bleeding
After-birth abortion
Obstetrical bleeding
Postpartum chills