Diseases

Secondary Hemorrhage

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Postoperative bleeding, reactionary and secondary haemorrhage. When you have closed an operation wound it may start bleeding: (1) during the first 48 hours (reactionary haemorrhage) because a clot in a vessel has been displaced, or a ligature has slipped.

SYMPTOMS

Fever, abdominal pain, offensive smelling lochia, abnormal vaginal bleeding - postpartum haemorrhage, abnormal vaginal discharge, dyspareunia, dysuria, general malaise.

CAUSES

Postoperative bleeding, reactionary and secondary haemorrhage. ... Or, (2) 8 to 14 days later (secondary haemorrhage) when the wound has become infected and eroded a vessel, usually quite a small one, sometimes a larger one.