A Review Of Eclampsia At The Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Lagos, Nigeria: Have We Improved?.

摘要: A total of 12,234 patients were treated in the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) for various obstetric conditions between January 1, 1996 and December 31, 2005. Of these, 165 (1.35%) eclamptics. 148 (89.7%) these pre-delivery eclamptics 17 (10.3%) post-delivery Unbooked remained a dominant group comprising 149 (90.3%) all Mean maternal age was 26.59±0.44 years. Most low parity; primiparae constituting 76.8% multiparae 23.2%. gestational amenorrhoea at onset eclampsia being 34.64±0.44 weeks. There 22 deaths due to its complications with mortality rate 133.3 per 1000 The commonest causes septicaemia (13.64%), acute renal failure (9.09%) respiratory (9.09%). 54 perinatal deaths, 346.2 1000. comparison data obtained from this recent decade (1996 - 2005) those previous three decades (1967 1976, 1977 1986 1995) showed that there had been progressive decline number managed LUTH last (572 1986, 299 1995, 2005). This study also rise mean caesarean section pre- delivery (55.41% 49.70% respectively) compared findings decades. significant increase rates decade. post mortem (40.9% 60% decades).