Maternal death

Postpartum spontaneous vulvar hematoma is a rare complication of childbirth that can potentially cause maternal death if not managed properly and in a timely manner. We present the case of maternal near miss secondary to postpartum hemorrhage secondary to vulvar hematoma after home delivery in a 28-year-old para IV mother from rural Ethiopia.

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To evaluate the effect of paid family leave in California on statewide rates of preterm birth, low birthweight, postneonatal mortality, and overall infant mortality. Data Sources: Live birth and death certificates from all in-hospital deliveries occurring in California (state exposed to the family leave policy) and two unexposed states (Missouri and Pennsylvania) from 1999 to 2008 (n = 6 164 203).

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Black women are disproportionately impacted by chronic illness and are significantly more likely to experience severe morbidity and mortality as a consequence of pregnancy and childbirth.1,2 As seen in a myriad of stories on maternal death and “near misses”, Black women often experience maltreatment in clinical settings.

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Timely diagnosis of uterine torsion can lead to acceptable maternal and fetal outcomes. This article presents the case of a 42-year-old pregnant woman, diagnosed with a rare 270° uterine torsion, in whom proper management led to good maternal outcomes but, unfortunately, severe prematurity and metabolic acidosis led to neonatal death.

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Acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis is a life-threatening condition leading to shock and multiorgan failure. Although prevalent in the general population, the incidence during pregnancy is low, with a high maternal and fetal mortality rate.

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Unskilled birth attendance is a major public health concern in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Existing studies are hardly focused on the socio-demographic correlates and geospatial distribution of unskilled birth attendance in Chad (a country in SSA), although the country has consistently been identified as having one of the highest prevalence of maternal and neonatal deaths in the world.

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Mechanisms of fetal death following maternal PRRSV2 infection remain uncharacterized, although hypoxia from umbilical cord lesions and/or placental detachment due to apoptosis are hypothesized. We performed two experiments examining hypoxia and apoptosis in PRRSV-infected and non-infected, third-trimester fetuses to elucidate possible associations with fetal death.

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Maternal early warning systems reduce maternal morbidity. We developed an electronic maternal surveillance system capable of visually summarizing the labor and delivery census and identifying changes in clinical status.

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In India, factors pertaining to poverty, illiteracy, women's workload and poor decision making traditional beliefs and practices and men's attitude towards child care contribute to malnutrition and eventually to maternal and child deaths.

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Torsion of uterus is a common form of maternal dystocia in bovines. Both maternal and fetal causes are attributed to the etiology of uterine torsion. The entire length of pregnant uterine horn rotates on its longitudinal axis to the left (anticlockwise) or right side (clockwise) along with uterine body, cervix and cranial vagina mostly. In severe cases of uterine torsion, there is vascular compromise to foetus resulting in death of fetus in utero.

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Maternal infections have been considered as one of the significant factors in the causation of bad obstetric history. Infections caused by Toxoplasma, Rubella, Cytomegalovirus and Herpes simplex virus are benign. However, they may lead to serious complications, especially when they are acquired during the first trimester of pregnancy. These are associated with inadvertent outcomes like multiple abortions, intra-uterine fetal death, stillbirths and congenital malformations.

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Iron has an important role in various metabolic processes and as a central structure of hemoglobin (Hb) for the process of transporting oxygen. Malnutrition from the beginning of pregnancy until the end of pregnancy will cause problems with labor, premature birth, low birth weight in infants to maternal death. The importance of examining serum Ferritin levels as early detection of iron deficiency anemia is especially carried out before pregnancy or early pregnancy (trimester I), given the high incidence of iron deficiency anemia in pregnant women and its impacts.

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Interventions to prevent sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI) have generally been population wide interventions instituted after case–control studies identified specific childcare practices associated with sudden death.

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Approximately 50% of the deaths of children under the age of 5 can be attributed to undernutrition, which also encompasses severe acute malnutrition (SAM). Diarrhoea is strongly associated with these deaths and is commonly diagnosed solely based on stool frequency and consistency obtained through maternal recall.

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Maternal infections caused by TORCH [Toxoplasma gondii, Rubella virus, Cytomegalovirus (CMV), Herpes simplex virus (HSV)] are the major causes of bad obstetric history. The aim of this study was to evaluate the age wise seroprevalence and to assess the seropositivity of Toxoplasma and Rubella among TORCH infections in pregnant women with BOH. A total of 90 sera samples are collected from pregnant women with bad obstetrical history attending the antenatal clinic in Govt. Maternity Hospital, Sultan Bazar, Kothi, Hyderabad.

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Ethiopia has made significant progress in reducing child mortality but newborn mortality has stagnated at around 29 deaths per 1000 births. The Maternal Health in Ethiopia Partnership (MaNHEP) was a 3.5- year implementation project aimed at developing a community-oriented model of maternal and newborn health in rural Ethiopia and to position it for scale up.

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Being pregnant is more dangerous than using con- traception. Therefore, the higher the typical failure rate (Table 1)1,2, the riskier a method is. This failure rate is 300 times as important in Afghanistan, Somalia, Sierra Leone or Niger(nearly 2% chance that a pregnancy will result in a maternal death and gener- ally no access to safe abortions) than in Scandinavia(0.007% chance, and induced abortions very safe).

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Indonesia’s maternal mortality is among the highest in the region, at an official ratio of 228/100,000. While this represents a decline from the ratio reported in previous years, it is far from the MDG target of 102/100,000 and an estimated 10,000 women die each year due to complications during labor and delivery. Most of these deaths are preventable. The leading causes of maternal mortality in Indonesia are hemorrhage (28%), eclampsia (24%), and sepsis (11%).

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Advocacy in India Inspires Government Action Advocacy efforts around pneumonia are vital in India, which has more child pneumonia deaths each year than any other country in the world. In 2008, approximately 370,000 Indian children under the age of five died of pneumonia. For the past five years, the small grant awardee Swaasthya has been implementing a maternal and newborn health initiative in the slums of Malegaon, a small city in the state of Maharashtra, India. Swaasthya noticed delays in community members reporting to a health care provider when babies came down with pneumonia.

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Maternal mortality data from civil registration were extracted primarily from the WHO mortality database for the years 1985 onwards. For civil registration data using the ICD-9, deaths from chapter X Complication of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (codes 630– 676) were included. For civil registration data using the ICD-10, the chapter XV Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium codes (O00–O99) plus maternal tetanus (A34) were extracted in order to match the ICD-9, which does not specifically identify late maternal deaths.

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