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Postpartum Hemorrhage

"Postpartum Hemorrhage" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Excess blood loss from uterine bleeding associated with OBSTETRIC LABOR or CHILDBIRTH. It is defined as blood loss greater than 500 ml or of the amount that adversely affects the maternal physiology, such as BLOOD PRESSURE and HEMATOCRIT. Postpartum hemorrhage is divided into two categories, immediate (within first 24 hours after birth) or delayed (after 24 hours postpartum).


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Postpartum Hemorrhage" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Postpartum Hemorrhage" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 147 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 17 publications in 2019
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.