Complications
These include:
- death - five percent of all mortality in pregnancy
- acute tubular necrosis
- puerperal sepsis
- pituitary necrosis - Sheehan's syndrome
- post-partum anaemia with associated psychological symptoms, eg lethargy, depression
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