Objective: To determine the clinical presentation and mortality of women presented with puerperal sepsis at tertiary care Hospital. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted at obstetrics and gynaecology department of Liaquat University of medical and health Sciences, from April 2018 to march 2019. Women having age more than 15 years and presented with sepsis after birth followed by spontaneous vaginal delivery, instrumental or episiotomy vaginal delivery or caesarean section were included. All the data including clinical features and mortality were recorded by study proforma. Data was analyzed by using SPSS version 20. Results: Most of the patients 46.6%, having age between 26 to 35 years. Majority of the patients 48.3% were delivered by normal vaginal delivery (NVD) and 37.9% underwent caesarean section, while 13.8% given birth as NVD with episiotomy. Almost all cases presented with fever and other common clinical features were abdominal pain, vaginal discharge, wound infection and breast tenderness. According to the maternal outcome 24.1% patients were shifted to intensive care unit (ICU), 34.5% had prolonged hospital stay and mortality rate was 10.3%. There was no significant difference in maternal outcome according to mod of delivery; p-values were quite insignificant. Conclusion: It was concluded that puerperal sepsis is a major contributing factor of maternal adverse outcome. Common clinical features were fever, abdominal pain and vaginal discharge.
Objective: To assess the early risk factors and outcomes of the patients presented with acute renal issues, at tertiary care Hospital. Methodology: This descriptive study was conducted at gynaecology and obstetrics department of Liaquat University of medical and health Sciences. Study duration was six months from June 2019 to November 2019. Women having age more than 18 years, developed renal impairment as serum creatinine level more than 1.2 mg/dl were included. All data was collected via self-made proforma. SPSS version 20 was used for the data analysis. Results: Total 58 women having renal problems during pregnancy were studied, their mean age was 28.40+4.68 years and mean gestational age was 28.40+4.68 years. Most of the women 70.2% were un-booked. Parity 1-3 was commonest. Anaemic women were on high risk of renal impairment as most of the patients had moderate anemia. Hypertension was in 35.1% patients, placental abruption was in 10.5% cases, tow patients had diabetes, 12.3% presented with pregnancy induced hypertension and postpartum haemorrhage was in 05.3% cases. There was a significant negative correlation between haemoglobin level and serum creatinine level, (r-value 0.029). Conclusion: Anemia was the commonest reason for renal impairment during pregnancy. Most of the women were un-booked, having high parity and were presented with anemia. This morbidity can be decreased and prevented by stabilizing the haemoglobin level by taking proper antenatal care.
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