[Perinatal medicine. Medico-social implications. I. Technics used in the identification of high risk pregnancy]

Gac Med Mex. 1979 Apr;115(4):157-60.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

PIP: The most important advancement in perinatology during the past few years has been the possibility to selectively establish a criterion to judge high risk pregnancies, which still represent the great majority of cases of materno-infant morbimortality. Social, economic, and cultural factors, age, biological antecedents of the mother, previous pregnancies, and medical history, have all a great influence in the evaluation of gestation. Through the years several models have been constructed to evaluate high perinatal risks; excluding complications due to danger of congenital abnormalities only 19% of women are exposed to high risk pregnancy. Among prenatal risk factors the most common are toxemia, chronic hypertension, severe cardiopathy, and diabetes; risk factors that may become more evident during delivery or shortly before it are toxemia again, premature rupture of membranes, meconial amniotic fluid, and abnormal presentation.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Humans
  • Maternal Mortality
  • Obstetric Labor Complications / diagnosis
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications / diagnosis*
  • Prenatal Care*
  • Risk