Abstract

CUENCA DUQUE, Yuglia Ivonne et al. Incidence of Severe Worsening Preeclampsia in Pregnant or Postpartum Women in Mayarí. ccm [online]. 2016, vol.20, n.4, pp. 657-666. ISSN 1560-4381.

Introduction: preeclampsia is a risk for the mother and the result of the conception. Objective: determinate the behavior of severe preeclampsia in the Perinatal Care Unit of the municipality. Method: a case series study was performed in 44 patients admitted to the Perinatal Care Ward with a diagnosis of worsening preeclampsia, during January to December 2013 at General University Hospital of Mayarí Holguin province. They used stadigraphs as the percentage, the mean and standard deviation as well as Chi square for testing hypothesis of independence. Results: patients diagnosed with worsening preeclampsia between 20 and 25 accounted for 43.18%. The gestation period that prevailed was 37 weeks and more with 50%; the dystocia accounted for 90.9%; preterm infants accounted for 43.47%. Conclusions: the highest number of cases with worsening preeclampsia was in patients between 20 and 25 years. The way of abdominal delivery (C-section) was the predominant interacting with a large number of preterm pregnancies; in perinatal outcomes, prematurity and low birth weight infants with complications represented the most affected indicator.

Keywords : preeclampsia; cesarean delivery; prematurity.

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