PERFORATION OF UTERUS FOLLOWING A INDUCED ABORTION

Septic induced abortion is a major public health problem. An infected abortion complicated by fever, endometritis, parametritis and rupture uterus remains one of the most serious threats to womens health worldwide.Mortality and morbidity from septic abortion are infrequent in countries in which induced abortion is legal.Septic abortion is a paradigm of preventive medicine relating all levels of prevention, primary, secondary and tertiary1. A 25 years old patient 2ndgravida was admitted in a septic ward in our institute with complaints of Oliguria, abdominal pain, vomiting following a dilatation and curettage that had history of two months amenorrhoea and ultrasound finding of incomplete abortion. Patient was initially treated with antibiotics later suspected as rupture uterus and referred to our institute for further management.