Socio-Demographic Characteristics of Eclamptic Patients at a Tertiary Institution in Lagos Nigeria.

Fabamwo, AO; Akinola, Oluwarotimi Ireti; Tayo, A.; Gbadegesin, Abidoye; Kushemiju, O K; Oyedele, Y

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“…The additional finding that more than half (54.2%) had antepartum eclampsia is in support of reports from other centres in the country [4,5,6,8,10,11,12]. This implies that prompt and proper management of the situation early on in the pregnancy or expedited referral to a tertiary center may have improved feto-maternal outcome in the study population.…”

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“…The incidence of eclampsia varies from one geographical area of Nigeria to another. Its incidence in the study population was 2.1% which was higher than that reported in the FCT, estimated at 1.3%, whereas Sagamu sharing the same south west geo-political zone as the study location has 1.7% and Benin in the middle eastern part of the country reported 1.3% [5,6,12]. The mean age and age range of eclamptic women in our study was similar to the report from Benin and FCT [5,14].…”

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Eclampsia and Pregnancy Outcome at Lautech Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, South West, Nigeria

Adekanle¹,

Akinbile²

2012

Clinics in Mother and Child Health

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Eclampsia is one of the leading causes of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. This problem has continued unabated due to lack of policies supporting financial protection in times of ill health, non-implementation of proven interventions as well as gaps in capacity building by stakeholders in health care delivery in this region. The aim of this retrospective study is to assess the impact of eclampsia on maternal and perinatal survival and suggest ways of reducing maternal death. A 6-year retrospective study was conducted with eighty-three cases of eclampsia. The cases were mainly antepartum patients with poor blood pressure control and resultant eclampsia. The case fatality rate was 8.3% and perinatal death was 24.1%. Magnesiun sulphate may have contributed to improvements in pregnancy outcome as mortality was higher among women with no access to magnesium sulphate. Most of the eclamptic patients were referred late from private health facilities hence the need for public-private collaboration in strengthening the referral system and making magnesium sulphate widely available in maternal care centers.

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Eclampsia and Pregnancy Outcome at Lautech Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, South West, Nigeria

Adekanle¹,

Akinbile²

2012

Clinics in Mother and Child Health

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“…Our prevalence of 1.2%, however, is <1.7% got by Olatunji and Sule-Odu[ 28 ] 1.66% by Fabamwo et al . [ 29 ] in Lagos, 2.7% by Okeudo et al . in Orlu Imo state,[ 31 ] 2.1% by Adekanle and Akinbile et al .…”

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“…Our findings here are in keeping with similar studies that found eclampsia to occur more in the primigravidae. [ 29 ]…”

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Eclampsia in rural Nigeria: The unmitigating catastrophe

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Introduction:Eclampsia is one of the most dreaded causes of adverse outcomes of pregnancy worldwide. It is one of the greatest causes of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality world over. We do not know the prevalence, management outcome, and the devastation caused by this dreaded disease in our center hence the need for this work.Materials and Methods:This is a 7-year retrospective review of all cases of eclampsia managed in Mater Misericordiae Hospital Afikpo, a rural secondary cum referral Catholic Mission Hospital in Afikpo, Ebonyi State in Southeastern Nigeria.Results:The prevalence of eclampsia in our center is 1.12% or one case of eclampsia for every 89 women that delivered in our facility. The majority of the women that had eclampsia in our center 56 (71.8%) were primigravidae. Seventeen women (21.8%) had various antenatal complications with 4 or 23.6% presenting with intrauterine fetal deaths and two (11.8%) each with intrauterine growth restriction, and domestic violence, respectively. Thirty-five or 44.9% of the women were delivered by emergency lower segment cesarean section. Fifteen or 17.9% babies were dead giving a perinatal mortality rate of 174 per 1,000After delivery, and 3 (3.8%) of the women had postpartum hemorrhage. Two women (2.6%) died giving a maternal mortality ratio of 2564 per 100,000 deliveries.Conclusion:Eclampsia is a dreaded obstetric disease with adverse fetal and maternal consequences that are not mitigating, and no effort should be spared in managing it effectively including public enlightenment.

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Significance of pre-hospital care to reduce the morbidity of eclampsia in rural Zambia

Miyoshi¹,

Matsubara

Takata

et al. 2019

Pregnancy Hypertension

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Socio-Demographic Characteristics of Eclamptic Patients at a Tertiary Institution in Lagos Nigeria.

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Eclampsia and Pregnancy Outcome at Lautech Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, South West, Nigeria

Eclampsia and Pregnancy Outcome at Lautech Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, South West, Nigeria

Eclampsia in rural Nigeria: The unmitigating catastrophe

Significance of pre-hospital care to reduce the morbidity of eclampsia in rural Zambia

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