In:
Medicina Fluminensis, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Medicine, Vol. 57, No. 3 ( 2021-09-01), p. 299-304
Abstract:
Objective: To examine the prevalence of maternal, placental and obstetric pathology in very low birth weight infants.Subjects and Methods: The group of respondents consists of all mothers whose pregnancies ended with the birth of live very low birth weight infants at the Clinical Hospital Center Osijek from 2015 to 2019. Data were collected from medical records and the hospital information system and processed by computer program R, very low birth weight version 3.5. Results: The incidence of births of very low birth weight preterm infants was 2.8%. Among maternal comorbidities, hypertensive disorders (20.6%), anemia (8.1%) and hypothyroidism (10.3%) stand out, whereas the most common previous maternal gynecological diseases were fibroids (3.3%). The most present maternal infections were intraamniotic infections (26.5%), urinary tract infections (10.3%), and unspecified infections (10.7%). 9.9% of mothers had some form of placental abruption. In preterm infants, the most common pathological position of the fetus was the pelvic presentation (16.5% of cases). Considering obstetric complications, premature rupture of amniotic fluid (37.1%), meconium amniotic fluid (18.4%), oligohydramnios (11.4%) and impending asphyxia (14.3%) were highly prevalent. Conclusions: This study highlighted the frequent complications of pregnancies that term with birth of very low birth weight infant. By emphasising the most common pathologies, we can facilitate the formulation of the hypothesis for further prospective studies that would potentially establish a causal relationship between these pathological conditions.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1848-820X
,
1847-6864
DOI:
10.21860/medflum2021_261192
Language:
Unknown
Publisher:
University of Rijeka, Faculty of Medicine
Publication Date:
2021
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