Still-birth--a tragic journey: a critical analysis.
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چکیده
Despite improvement in antenatal and intrapartum care, late intrauterine fetal death at and after 28 weeks of gestation remains a persistent and challenging problem to the obstetricians. We undertook the retrospective review of the medical records of 89 women with singleton pregnancy who gave birth to still-born infants at or more than 28 weeks gestation during the period from April 1998 to April 2007 at Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital to know the prevalence rate and devise preventive measures for still-born infants which accounts more than 50.0% of perinatal death in Nepal. Major malformations were present in 5 (5.6%) of 89 infants including three infants with neural tube abnormalities. Pre-eclampsia preceded the stillbirth and might have been an indirect cause of stillbirth in 16 (19.0%) of 84 women whose infants had normal formations. The cause of still birth in 68 non-pre-eclamptic women was unclear in 31 (45.6%) home breech delivery with head stuck in 11 (16.0%), abruptio placentae in 5 (7.3%), intrauterine fetal growth restriction in 10 (14.7%), infection in 6 (8.8%) and cord accidents in 5 (7.3%). The causes of still births were many and varied, with large population having no obvious cause, although autopsy was not done in any case in this study. Proper monitoring of women with preeclampsia and early diagnosis and prompt delivery for women with abruption placenta might be helpful in reducing the number of stillbirths. Great advocacy with community education on importance of community focused antenatal care and increasing institutional delivery with availability of emergency obstetric care is necessary to decrease the number of stillbirths and perinatal mortality in developing countries like Nepal.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Nepal Medical College journal : NMCJ
دوره 12 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010