Research Article
Pregnancy in Sickle Cell Disease Is a Very High-Risk Situation: An Observational Study
Table 6
Comparison of maternal-fetal characteristics between two published studies and the current study.
| | Current study | Silva-Pinto et al. [9] | Leborgne-Samuel et al. [10] |
| Number of patients | 62 | 34 | 68 | Obstetric complications (%) | | | | Previous miscarriage | 21 | 26.6 | | Prematurity | 29 | | 21 | Intrauterine growth retardation | 24.2 | | 8.8 | Preeclampsia | 17.7 | 12 | 10 | Perinatal death | 5 | 7.7 | 6 | Cesarean section | 53 | 41 | 48 | Gestational diabetes | 0 | 6 | | Neonatal death | 0 | 0 | 2.9 | Maternal death | 0 | 2.9 | 1.7 |
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