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Grandmultiparity: A Continuing Problem in Developing Countries
Author(s) -
Karim Saadiya Aziz,
Memon Abdul M.,
Qadri Nighat
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
asia‐oceania journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1447-0756
pISSN - 0389-2328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1447-0756.1989.tb00170.x
Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , medicine , obstetrics , pregnancy , gynecology , obstetric history , pediatrics , gestation , genetics , physics , optics , biology
Four hundred and thirty‐one grandmultiparae and 1,070 less parous women who delivered at Civil Hospital, Karachi over a 2‐year period (Jan. 1982 to Dec. 1983) have been reviewed retrospectively. The purpose was to estimate the incidence of grandmultiparity at this hospital and compare the incidence of obstetric and medical complications in the grandmultiparae with the less parous women. A higher incidence of anaemia, spontaneous abortions, abruptio placentae, postpartum haemorrhage, spontaneous uterine rupture and fetal loss was found in the grandmultiparae compared with other parturients. The grandmultipara continues to be a “high‐risk” obstetric problem.