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