Reply: Placenta previa and perinatal mortality

Abnormal Placentation: Placenta Previa, Vasa Previa, and Placenta Accreta.

Placental disorders such as placenta previa, placenta accreta, and vasa previa are all associated with vaginal bleeding in the second half of pregnancy. They are also important causes of serious fetal and maternal morbidity and even mortality. Moreover, the rates of previa and accreta are increasing, probably as a result of increasing rates of cesarean delivery, maternal age, and assisted repro...

Placenta previa

OBJECTIVES To review cases of placenta previa in the last 13 years in a tertiary teaching hospital to identify risk factors for maternal morbidity.  METHODS A retrospective analysis of all cases of placenta previa managed at King Abdulaziz University Hospital (KAUH), Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from January 2001 to December 2013.    RESULTS The total number of deliveries was 55,862 deli...

Predictors of Perinatal Mortality Associated with Placenta Previa and Placental Abruption: An Experience from a Low Income Country

A retrospective cohort study design was used to assess predictors of perinatal mortality in women with placenta previa and abruption between January 2006 and December 2011. Four hundred thirty-two women (253 with placenta previa and 179 with placental abruption) were eligible for analysis. Binary logistic regression, Kaplan-Meier survival curve, and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve...

Conservative treatment of placenta previa.

Pregnancy Evolution, Associated Complications and Perinatal Outcome in Patients with Placenta Previa and Placental Abruption

MOJ Womens Health 2017, 4(5): 00096 the umbilical cord briefness, uterine sudden decompression, deficiencies of folic acid, prolonged preterm membranes rupture, polyhydramnios and the former PA in the previous pregnancy [5]. Ananth et al. [6] conducted a meta-analysis recently and assessed the relationship between PA, prolonged rupture of the membranes and gestational hypertension. They found t...