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Modeling Ascending Vaginal Infection, Preterm Birth, and Neonatal Morbidity in Mice
Published on: October 10, 2025
[Maternal mortality: epidemiology, risk factors and evitability. About ten cases]
S Mahbouli1, M Basli, F Messaoudi
1Service de gynécologie-obstétrique, hôpital militaire principal d'instruction de Tunis, 1008 Montfleury, Tunis, Tunisie
Objectives:
To determine maternal mortality rate during the last decade as revealing the quality of obstetrical follow-up and the necessary measures to be taken.
Patients And Methods:
A retrospective study conducted in the department of gynaecology in the military hospital in Tunis between 1990 and 2001, permitted to count 10 cases of maternal death.
Results:
Maternal mortality rate was about 33.72/100,000 live births. Mean age of patients was 31.2 years. Primiparity, multiparity, poor socio-economic conditions, high-risk pregnancies and bad follow-up were responsible in 5, 1, 6 and 3 cases and represent the risk factors of mortality. All deaths occurred after delivery, with 60% before 24 h. Causes of death were haemorrhage in 40%, gravidic hypertension in 20%, anesthetic accidents in 10%, acute hepatic failure in 10%, and infection in 10%. Indirect causes are responsible for 20% of cases.
Discussion And Conclusion:
Deaths were judged evitable in 66.6% of cases, which confirms, although maternal mortality has diminished in the recent past, the necessity of pursuing study of risk factors together with study of remedies to them.
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