Somatic features and reproduction characteristics of patients with perinatal fetal death

Aims of study. The current analysis was undertaken to determine risk factors for perinatal losses and assess the possibility of their prediction.

Study design, materials and methods. We analyzed 307 cases of perinatal death in obstetric facilities of the Leningrad region (main group). 357 women who gave birth to living children who lived 7 days of the perinatal period represented the control comparison group. A retrospective analysis was carried out based on medical hospital records: an examination of events during pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and early infancy, as well as afterbirth study findings and autopsy reports.

Results. We performed a retrospective analysis of the social (3 factors), somatic (28 factors), and reproductive (15 factors) statuses of patients with perinatal losses in order to try to assess the possibility of identifying risk groups and predicting perinatal and fetal mortality.

Conclusion. The predictors of perinatal mortality were determined, namely features of social status (absence of a marriage record and a permanent job, low level of education), somatic status (diabetes, cardiovascular pathology, arterial hypertension, chronic hemocontact infections), and reproductive status (late menarche, early sexual debut, previous infectious genital pathology, childbirth at a young age, etc.).