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Pregnancy in hemoglobin sickle cell patients at the University College Hospital, Ibadan

A Idrisa1, A O Omigbodun, J A Adeleye

  • 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria.

International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics: the Official Organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics
|June 1, 1992
PubMed

A retrospective review of pregnancy outcome in hemoglobin (Hbsc) patients managed at the University College Hospital, Ibadan over a 5-year period (1984-1988) was carried out. The main antenatal complications included anemia (51.2%), bacterial infection (22.0%), bone pain crisis (7.3%) and preeclampsia (2.4%). Intrapartum complications included anemia (29.2%), bone pain crisis (12.2%) and pseudotoxemia (4.9%). The maternal and perinatal mortality rate were 48 and 195 per 1000, respectively. The duration of labor and operative delivery rate were not different from the general population.

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