Risk of early onset neonatal septicemia in babies born to mothers with pre-eclampsia

ABSTRACT

The effects of maternal pre-eclampsia on fetal outcome has been a subject of concern for a long time. This prospective study aimed to find out the risk factors of early onset septicemia and its relation to neutropenia in the neonates of the pre-eclamptic mothers. Ninety newborn babies born to mothers with pre-eclampsia and 90 matched born to normal mothers were included. The results showed that the IPETMs and INMs groups demographic data were comparable [p >0.05]. Six neonates of IPEMs developed early onset sepsis versus 2 among INMs. The difference was not statistically significant [p<0.05]. Neutropenia was three-fold more frequent in IPETMs when maternal hypertension was severe