The combined treatment of acute pospartum endomeritis following delivery by Cesarean section with the use of magnetotherapy

The objective of the present work was to study the efficacy of the earlier introduction of a running pulsed low-frequency magnetic field (RLFMF) in the program of traditional therapy of acute postpartum endometritis (PE) after the delivery by Cesarean section. The study included 124 women presenting with acute postpartum endometritis following the Cesarean section at weeks 36-40 of the pregnancy. All the patients were divided into two matched groups. Group 1 was comprised of 70 women with acute postpartum endometritis after the Cesarean section who were treated using a combination of traditional therapy and physiotherapy (using a running pulsed low-frequency magnetic field). The women in the control group 2 (n = 54) in the same postpartum condition were managed with traditional therapy including broad-spectrum antibiotics in the absence of physiotherapy. The integral estimation of clinical symptomatology and the results of the study gives evidence of the higher efficacy of the combined treatment of the patients with acute postpartum endometritis with the application of the running pulsed low-frequency magnetic field compared with traditional antibiotic therapy.

acute postpartum endometritis, postpartum period, Cesarean section, magnetotherapy, running pulsed low-frequency magnetic field