Meharunnisa Khaskheli.
Evaluation of early pregnancy loss.
Pak J Med Res Jan ;41(2):70-2.

Abortion is the commonest complication of the pregnancy, and is responsible for the maximum number of pregnancy wastage. It may be induced or spontaneous. This study was carried out prospectively from January 1995 to December 1996 to find out the cause and prevalence of abortion. During this time 2104 gynaecological patients were admitted in our unit, and out of them 240 cases were of abortion i.e. 11.4% was the prevalence of abortion. Most cases of abortion occurred in women between the age groups of 26-35 years, the prevalence of abortion increases as the parity increases, highest prevalence were in para 5 and above. Commonest type of abortion was incomplete i.e. 30.4%. Prevalence of repeated abortions was 29.1%, most of these abortions occurred at 8 – 12 weeks of gestation i.e. 50.8%. Apparent causes for the abortion were most commonly the metabolic diseases i.e. 29.5% and the least common causes were the uterine malformations i.e. 8.2%.

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