Abstract

ALVAREZ PONCE, Vivian Asunción; LUGO SANCHEZ, Ana María; ALVAREZ SANCHEZ, Aleida Zaida  and  MUNIZ RIZO, Milagros Eusebia. Behavior of prolonged pregnancy at the perinatal care service. Rev Cubana Obstet Ginecol [online]. 2004, vol.30, n.2. ISSN 0138-600X.

Prolonged pregnancy is still a controversial topic. A retrospective, longitudinal and descriptive study of all patients with prolonged pregnancy that were admitted at the perinatal care service of the Gynecoobstetric Teaching Hospital of Guanabacoa during 2002, was conducted. A control group of the first four births of every month with a gestational age between 37 and 41 weeks was selected. 60.4 % of the total of patients were nulliparas and 49.4 % began the labor spontaneously. Induced delivery prevailed (67.4 %) in patients from the study group. A total of 30 women underwent cesarean section and of them, the highest percentage, 46.5 %, corresponded to the study group. The meconial amniotic fluid predominated in the study group, 46.6 %. There were no severely depressed newborn infants in the study. Only 5.4 % of the newborn infants had low Apgar score at the minute of extrauterine life. In 16.2 % of the study group, birth weight was ³ 4 000 grams.

Keywords : Prolonged pregnancy.