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Article: Cesarean Section Safe For HIV(+) Women.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- AIDS Weekly
- Article date:
- July 9, 2001
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2001 JUL 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Pregnant women who are HIV positive can undergo cesarean deliveries without exceptional risk, researchers say.
E.J. Rodriguez and colleagues at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, performed a study to "compare the complication rates associated with cesarean delivery between human immunodeficiency virus-seropositive women with those among a matched group of [HIV] seronegative subjects." The results of their research were published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Although complications during cesarean delivery were somewhat more common ...