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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-12-13
pubmed:abstractText
Preterm deliveries (PT) produce new-borns whose prognosis is generally very dark. Prematurity is the first cause of neonatal death. A retrospective study was carried out at the Maternity Hospital of Befelatanana, Antananarivo in order to specify causes and difficulties of PT and to draw up strategy for their better management so that premature infants have chance to survive. The survey concerned 1394 patients: all pregnancies whose gestational age are between 22 and 36 weeks and those who delivery viable infants discharged home whose weights are between 500 and 2,500 grams. PT occur frequently among teenagers and more than 35-year old women. Risk factors and determinative causes of PT are mothers' toxic habits, gyneco-obstetrical history as PT, abortion, cicatricial uterus, urogenital infections. 12 maternal deaths were noted. Infant perinatal mortality rate was of 47.3 per cent. The authors conclude that difficulties were in labor and both antepartum and intrapartum periods. Preventive measures must surpass curative therapy. They will be based on the improvement of standard of living, the reinforcement of planning family and a strict pregnancy surveillance.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0020-2495
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
65
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
93-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12478969-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:12478969-Cause of Death, pubmed-meshheading:12478969-Delivery, Obstetric, pubmed-meshheading:12478969-Family Planning Services, pubmed-meshheading:12478969-Female, pubmed-meshheading:12478969-Gestational Age, pubmed-meshheading:12478969-Hospitalization, pubmed-meshheading:12478969-Hospitals, Maternity, pubmed-meshheading:12478969-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:12478969-Infant, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:12478969-Infant Mortality, pubmed-meshheading:12478969-Intensive Care, Neonatal, pubmed-meshheading:12478969-Madagascar, pubmed-meshheading:12478969-Obstetric Labor, Premature, pubmed-meshheading:12478969-Pregnancy, pubmed-meshheading:12478969-Pregnancy Outcome, pubmed-meshheading:12478969-Prenatal Care, pubmed-meshheading:12478969-Prognosis, pubmed-meshheading:12478969-Retrospective Studies, pubmed-meshheading:12478969-Risk Factors
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
[Premature deliveries at the maternity hospital of Befelatanana, Antananarivo in 1997].
pubmed:affiliation
Hôpital général de Befelatanana, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Antananarivo, BP 14 bis, 101 Antananarivo, Madagascar.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract