Sudden Deaths associated with Induced Abortion

, Sung Bong Hong

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Korean Journal of Legal Medicine 1984;8(Suppl DB Error: syntax error):37-42.

Sudden Deaths associated with Induced Abortion

Sung Bong Hong

Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Korea University, College of Medicine

Abstract

Since the launch of the national family planning service in 1962, practice of induced abortion in Korea was estimated at about one million and half cases per annum in 1980. Hence, not few abortion-associated deaths have probably been encountered. However, inappropriate vital reporting system has yielded a scarcity of pertinent data. Reports from the United States disclosed during the period of 1972~1977 that major causes of death associated with legal abortions are infection, embolism, anesthesia, and hemorrhage. This paper is aimed to review the literatures on the deaths associated with induced abortion with an emphasis on sudden death cases.

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