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Modern treatment of abruptio placentae.

Abruptio placentae, in its severe form, causes the most hazardous type of third trimester bleeding. The severe grade may be accompanied by systemic effects, some of which are potentially lethal. A knowledge of these, as well as a system of grading the severity in terms of maternal risk, is essential to an understanding of therapy. Cases should be graded in severity from I to III on the basis of clinical factors. A delay in delivery, in Grade III, may result in an increased incidence of serious maternal complications. In Grade II, immediate cesarean section has reduced the fetal mortality rate.…