ABSTRACT
The aims of this study were to assess the incidence of LBW in the Gogo Chatinkha Banda Maternity wing of Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital(Chatinkha Martenity Wing) in Blantyre; to subdivide the LBW infants into preterm and TSGA groups; and to use the results to make suggestions for optimal management of LBW at Chatinkha Maternity Wing
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Maternal and Child Health , Nutritional Sciences , PediatricsABSTRACT
A case of three successive ruptured tubal pregnancies in the same patient is described. This is a rare occurrence. A review of the literature on the conservative approach in the surgical management of tubal pregnancy, is given.
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Fallopian Tubes/surgery , Pregnancy Complications , Pregnancy, Tubal/surgery , Adult , Female , Humans , Pelvic Inflammatory Disease , Pregnancy , Pregnancy, Tubal/complications , Pregnancy, Tubal/etiology , Recurrence , Rupture, Spontaneous , ZambiaABSTRACT
Sixty-three cases of obstructed labour encountered at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia, are analysed for the period April 1972 - December 1973. For the same period there were 27 348 deliveries and 1 432 Caesarean sections. The management of choice was Caesarean section, because of a lack of experienced medical staff and the poor results obtained, together with the serious complications which follow destructive operations before vaginal deliveries. Eighty-five per cent of the babies were delivered alive. There was no maternal death. Twenty-six mothers remained in hospital for longer than 10 days. There was 1 case of a burst abdomen.
