Liver disease is an important and serious condition in pregnancy. The Confidential Enquiries Into Maternal Deaths in Malaysia showed that there were 23 maternal deaths attributed to liver disease between 1991-1994. Over the same period, there were 1066 reported maternal deaths with 929 of them being due to direct and indirect causes. Thus 2.15% of such deaths were due to liver disease in Malays...

2072 www.thelancet.com Vol 387 May 21, 2016 Maternal mortality, no matter when and where it occurs, results in sequelae that extend beyond the loss of the life of a single woman. The death of a mother adversely aff ects the ability of her family to survive and thrive, especially under conditions of socioeconomic deprivation. Documentation of data on maternal mortality has helped identify areas ...

BACKGROUND The availability of quality data to inform policy is essential to reduce maternal deaths. To characterize maternal deaths in settings without complete vital registration systems, we designed and assessed the inter-rater reliability of a tool to systematically extract data and characterize the events that precede a nationally representative sample of maternal deaths in India. METHOD...

OBJECTIVE A reduction in the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is one of six health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, there is no consensus about how to measure MMR in the many countries that do not have complete registration of deaths and accurate ascertainment of cause of death. In this study, we compared estimates of pregnancy-related deaths and maternal mortality in a devel...

Objectives: To identify the effects of Maternal and Neonatal Death Review (MNDR) in terms of improving maternal and neonatal health at the community level in Bangladesh. Methods: Both quantitative and qualitative methods were undertaken for collecting data in Kashipur Union, Bangladesh. Death notifications from households, subsequent data collections from a focus-group discussion (FGD), a group...

BACKGROUND Maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa has remained high and this is a reflection of the poor quality of maternal services. AIM To determine the causes, trends, and level of maternal mortality rate in Abakaliki, Ebonyi. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a review of the records of all maternal deaths related to pregnancy over a ten-year period, that is, January 1999 to December 200...