Research Article
Postoperative Infectious Morbidities of Cesarean Delivery in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Women
Table 4
Postoperative
infectious complications among HIV-infected women and HIV-negative women.
| | HIV-infected | HIV-negative | -value |
| Infectious complications | 20 (16.8%) | 52 (19.7%) | NS | Endometritis | 15 (12.6%) | 32 (12.1%) | NS | Urinary tract infection | 2 (1.7%) | 15 (5.7%) | NS | Superficial wound
breakdown
| 1 (0.8%)
| 5 (1.9%)
| NS
| Deep wound breakdown | 1 (0.8%) | 3 (1.1%) | NS | | 0 | 5 (1.9%) | NS | Pneumonia | 2 (1.7%) | 3 (1.1%) | NS |
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Data presented as
number and percent. = Septic pelvic
thrombophlebitis.NS = Not significant.
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