Serious maternal complications after early preterm delivery (24-33 weeks' gestation).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We sought to describe the prevalence of serious maternal complications following early preterm birth by gestational age (GA), delivery route, and type of cesarean incision.

Study design

Trained personnel abstracted data from maternal and neonatal charts for all deliveries on randomly selected days representing one third of deliveries across 25 US hospitals over 3 years (n = 115,502). All women delivering nonanomalous singletons between 23-33 weeks' gestation were included. Women were excluded for antepartum stillbirth and highly morbid conditions for which route of delivery would not likely impact morbidity including nonreassuring fetal status, cord prolapse, placenta previa, placenta accreta, placental abruption, and severe and unstable maternal conditions (cardio

SUBMITTER: Reddy UM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4587283 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature