Place du sulprostone dans la prise en charge des inerties uterines. A propos de 60 cas

ABSTRACT

The serious haemorrhages of the delivery still one of the'first causes of maternal mortality. We report an analytical study over a period of 18 months and gathering 60 cases of haemorrhage of the delivery by uterine inertia having imposed the recourse to the sulprostone. The average age of the patients was 31 years, the average parity was L9, the rate of childbirth per Caesarean was 65%. The uterine surdistension was fhe principal etiology of the uterine inertia. The average time of administration of the sulprostone was 10 mn. No complication related to the product was noted. The effectiveness of the treatment was observed in 93.3% of the cases, with 4 cases of failure