Open AccessPREGNANCY
Author(s) -
Muhammad Aslam Ahsan,
Muhammad Rafique Cheema
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2016.23.03.1474
Subject(s) - medicine , pregnancy , fibrinogen , d dimer , obstetrics , retrospective cohort study , complication , surgery , genetics , biology
Thromboembolic complications are considered as the major cause of deathin pregnant ladies. Objectives: To evaluate the presence of this complication. Design:Retrospective and comparative study. Setting: Services Hospital Lahore. Period: From 2010 to2012. Materials and Methods: Forty pregnant ladies admitted in Services Hospital Lahore weresubjected to estimation of fibrinogen level, FDP level and plasma D-dimer level within 24 hoursof delivery. Results: Twenty controls and 40 patients (pregnant ladies) were studied. Fibrinogenlevel, FDP level and plasma D-dimer levels were increased in all patients as compared to thecontrols and this increase in all three investigations was statistically significant (P˂ O.O5).Conclusion: Significant changes in Fibrinogen level, FDP level and plasma D-dimer level werefound in pregnant ladies immediately after delivery (within 24 hours).