Perinatal Infections
Vol. 27 No 4 | Summer 2025
The Summer 2025 edition of O&G Magazine explores perinatal infections. Pregnancy is often described as a time of glow and anticipation. Yet for many women and their clinicians, it can be a period of heightened vigilance, where exposure to the smallest microbe can alter the course of pregnancy. This issue covers common viral threats, including Varicella-zoster, influenza, COVID-19, parvovirus 19, and cytomegalovirus. The articles and case studies highlight prevention, case management, and patient education. As medicine advances, so must research, understanding, and management of these invisible foes. They may be small, but in the perinatal world, they still hold enormous power.  
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Jordan Lambropoulos
Feature
My Lived Experience with CMV
Jordan Lambropoulos
Dr Sumudu Britton
Feature
Rising Rates of Congenital Syphilis: Why We Need to Improve Management of Syphilis in Pregnancy
Dr Sumudu Britton
Dr Shyam Prakaash Bhagavata Srinivasan
Feature
Case of Parvovirus B19-Associated Non-Immune Hydrops Requiring Intra-Uterine Transfusion
Dr Shyam Prakaash Bhagavata Srinivasan

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Caesarean Section Wound Infection and Dressings
Dr Daniella Susic
PhD (UNSW), FRANZCOG, BMed (Dist), AFHEA
Dr Helena Qian
BMed (Dist), DipLANG, AICGG, ARANZCOG (Cert)
Brittany Bickford
RN, BN ProfHons(Orthopaedics), MWoundCare

Post-caesarean wound morbidity spans surgical site infection (SSI), dehiscence, contact dermatitis, endometritis, seroma, and haematoma, with downstream impacts on breastfeeding, readmission, and cost.

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How to manage a complex ovarian cyst
Dr Michael Bethune
MBBS, FRANZCOG, DDU, COGU

Gynaecologists are frequently confronted with the quandary of an ultrasound report stating that there is a ‘complex ovarian cyst’, especially when the ultrasound has not been performed by a specialist with a certificate of obstetric and gynaecological ultrasound (COGU). Complex is a very vague term that does not adequately guide further management.

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