Spontaneous abortion is the end of a pregnancy with gestational age less than 20 weeks or weighing 500 grams that occurs naturally. The Indonesian Research and Development Agency stated 4.1% maternal deaths in Indonesia were caused by spontaneous abortion, where target for reducing MMR 2021 0.22%. This incident was triggered several factors including mother. Preliminary data survey at RSU Cut M...

The World Health Organization (WHO) (2007) estimated that in 2005 nearly 536 000 women died from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth; this translates to a woman dying every minute in the developing world, where 99% of all maternal deaths occur. Recent studies (Khan et al, 2006; WHO, 2007) have found that postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) accounted for 25–34% of these deaths, predominant...

PURPOSE To analyze the serological, anatomopathological and parasitological results obtained from abortive material in order to detect infections with the risk of vertical transmission, with emphasis on toxoplasmosis. METHODS A cross-sectional cohort study was conducted in order to determine the prevalence of infectoparasitic diseases. A total of 105 women who suffered spontaneous complete or...

Placenta percreta is a rare complication potentially fatal to fetus and the mother. We present here a 41-year-old female patient who underwent curettage for incomplete abortion at 6(th) week of pregnancy. She had persistent vaginal bleeding for 2 months after the curettage, for which she was treated with hysterectomy. Preoperative ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) made the di...

In Malawi, physicians analyzed retrospective data on 600 consecutive abortion cases who were admitted to the gynecology ward at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe during January-May 1990. These cases comprised 45% of all admissions to this ward during the study period. 71% of the patients had first-trimester abortions and 29% had second-trimester abortions. 85% of cases were admitted with i...

Background: Medical abortion pills have revolutionised the freedom of woman in her decision for abortion. Due to self-medication these drugs by pregnant women without any medical consultation or supervision has become very common. This study was carried out analyse effect unsupervised self-prescription pill attending tertiary care centre. Methods: prospective observational conducted among patie...

Background Unsafe abortion is a public health problem worldwide. One way of reducing the number of unsafe procedures is to increase safe choices for pregnancy termination. In developed countries, of the 28 million pregnancies occurring every year, 36% end in abortion. In developing countries, of the 182 million pregnancies occurring every year, 20% end in abortion. Almost 80% of all abortions a...

this study has been conducted on the path reports of diagnostic curettage carried out in mirza koochek-khan hospital during the 6 months of the year 1989 (april to september). the reports examined have been further classified into incompelete abortion, diagnostic currettage and others. a total number of 645 women have had d&c; according to the above criteria. in this period of time, incomplete ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate feasibility of self-assessment of medical abortion outcome using a low-sensitivity urine pregnancy test, checklist and text messages. The study assessed whether accurate self-assessment required a demonstration of the low-sensitivity urine pregnancy test or if verbal instructions suffice. METHODS This non-inferiority trial enrolled 525 adult women from six public sector ...