Septic Abortion

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Abstract
Septic abortion, an abortion associated with infection and complicated by fever, endometritis, and parametritis,1 remains one of the most serious threats to the health of women throughout the world. Morbidity and mortality from septic abortion are infrequent in countries where induced abortion is legal but are widespread in the many developing countries where it is either illegal or inaccessible. Septic abortion provides a paradigm for preventive medicine, with opportunities for primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention2.Scope of the ProblemA 1973 report described an adolescent admitted to a large Boston teaching hospital with what proved to be incomplete septic . . .