Medisan (Dec 2016)
Chorioamnionitis and preterm birth: perinatal results in a triennium
Abstract
A descriptive, prospective and longitudinal study of all preterm births whose cause was the chorioamnionitis, assisted in "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" Teaching General Hospital in Santiago de Cuba was carried out, during 2013-2015, with the purpose of determining its incidence and impact in prematurity. The average maternal age of women that presented chorioamnionitis was 28.6 years, while the mean gestational age was 32.3 weeks; as long as, the genital infection was the predominant risk factor (74.0 %), followed by anemia (70.1 %) and the premature rupture of membranes (55.8 %), and the average birth weight was 1 753 grams. It was concluded that prematurity continues being one of the main health problems, and that there is a tendency to diminish chorioamnionitis incidence and mortality due to this cause.
