Background: Polyhydramnios is an important obstetric complication. This study was conducted to determine its frequency, common causes and the perinatal outcome. Material & Methods: It was a cross-sectional study conducted in Gynae B Unit, Women and Children Hospital Abbottabad, conducted from January to December 2001. History, clinical examination and relevant investigations were carried out. R...

OBJECTIVE to develop and validate a questionnaire on severe maternal morbidity and to evaluate the maternal recall of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. DESIGN validity of a questionnaire as diagnostic instrument. SETTING a third level referral maternity in Campinas, Brazil. POPULATION 386 survivors of severe maternal complications and 123 women that delivered without majo...

BACKGROUND Post-extubation laryngospasm is a dangerous complication that should be managed promptly. Standard measures were described for its management. We aimed to compare the efficacy of propofol (0.5mg.kg-1) vs. lidocaine (1.5mg.kg-1) for treatment of resistant post-extubation laryngospasm in the obstetric patients, after failure of the standard measures. METHOD This study was conducted o...

OBJECTIVE To assess the frequency of obstetric hysterectomy, its indications and associated maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. METHODS The retrospective observational analytical study was conducted at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Unit-I, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi from January 2003 to December 2009. Records of all patients who had underone hyster...

BACKGROUND In communities with low rates of institutional delivery, little data exist on care-seeking behavior for potentially life-threatening obstetric complications. In this analysis, we sought to describe care-seeking patterns for self-reported complications and near misses in rural Bangladesh and to identify factors associated with care seeking for these conditions. METHODS Utilizing dat...

Pregnancy induced hypertension is one of the most common and challenging medical complication of pregnancy as this complex disease continues to defeat all efforts to bring about satisfactory and rewarding policy of management because of its poor understanding of pathological basics. It is the hypertension that results from direct gravid state and is one of the critical obstetric complications a...

Introduction: Placental malaria is a complication of malaria in pregnancy and is associated with adverse clinical and obstetric outcomes. This study intends to associate clinical symptoms of malaria and adverse obstetric outcomes with the presence of Plasmodium falciparum in the placenta of pregnant women in Luanda, Angola. Methods: We conducted a hospital based analytic cross-sectional study. ...

BACKGROUND The aims of this retrospective study were to evaluate the maternal and prenatal outcomes between 35 years and older pregnancies and younger pregnancies, and the effects of the age of pregnancy, mother and newborn. METHODS Pregnant women who gave birth in Vakif Gureba Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2006 were retrospectively screened. Pregnant ...

objective: this prospective study examined the frequency of post-dural puncture headache (pdph) in 361 parturient women undergoing spinal anesthesia for cesarean section in a teaching hospital of tehran university of medical sciences. materials and methods: spinal anesthesia was performed using 25 gauge quincke needles in all women. patients were followed up to determine incidence of pdph and t...

Abstract Objectives: measuring the prevalence of interventions and/or complications based on Maternity Safety Thermometer (MST) criteria and verifying associations with sociodemographic, clinical, obstetric factors. Methods: prospective observational study conducted postpartum women admitted to maternity ward a tertiary hospital, from October 10th December 30th, 2020. Data were collected medica...