Doctors told her she needed an emergency hysterectomy, but because of a bed shortage she had to wait in agony for three-and-a-half hours.

She bore only one child herself, stillborn in 1941, an incident which precipitated an emergency hysterectomy.

She was soon distracted by family problems of her own when Perdy miscarried again and needed an emergency hysterectomy.

One woman had to undergo an emergency hysterectomy because of internal bleeding from a severed uterine artery.

The baby is stillborn but Lynne also needed an emergency hysterectomy so she cannot have any more children.

An emergency hysterectomy is performed to save her life, eliminating all chances of her ever giving birth again.

In rare cases, an emergency hysterectomy is needed to treat an infected uterus.

Abby also has to have an emergency hysterectomy.

Along with this is a similar rise in the risk of emergency hysterectomies at delivery.

In 1933, Bankhead nearly died following a five-hour emergency hysterectomy due to venereal disease.