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  • Title: [Vacuum-curettage. Experience in 100 cases].
    Author: Lutz I, Lizana L, Amestica O, Krug C.
    Journal: Rev Chil Obstet Ginecol; 1971; 36(2):127-9. PubMed ID: 5163402.
    Abstract:
    From October 1968, 100 vacuum curettage procedures were performed at Felix Bulnes Hospital using a Sorensen aspirator specially designed for the purpose. The reasons for the intervention were chiefly complications of abortion but included cases of missed abortion, molar pregnancy, and metrorrhagia. The patients were 15-45 years old; the pregnancies varied from less than 4 weeks to 20 weeks. In the majority of cases, cervical dilatation was already sufficient to introduce the cannula. The fever, an indication of the seriousness of these cases, disappeared in 62% of the patients after the aspiration. There were no instances of local infection or of uterine perforation. The postprocedure hospital stay was from 2 to 4 days in most cases; 9% of the patients were hospitalized longer for causes unrelated to the procedure. Antibiotics were used on 20% of the patients before and on 40% after the procedure. This technique has proved painless, rapid, and does not per se produce greater hemorrhage.
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