Avaliação dos casos de aborto e suas complicações em dois hospitais de Campinas / Evaluation of abortions and their complications among women admitted in two hospitals in Campinas

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

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Introduction: The unsafe abortion corresponds to one of the major causes of maternal death in the world. During the last decade, the access to safer methods to abortion, mainly misoprostol, has contributed to decrease of abortion morbidity. In Campinas, the maternal mortality by abortion seems to have fallen considerably. This can have occurred because of the great use of misoprostol by women who chose to induce the abortion. Objectives: Verify the proportion of induced abortion with misoprostol and other methods, and to compare the complications observed. Subjects and methods: From July 2008 until April 2009, the women who had an abortion and were admitted to two hospitals in Campinas were interviewed, a check-list with the WHO criteria of induced abortion was used to verify if the abortion was induced or not. To obtain more information about women whose abortion was classified as possible, provable or certainly induced a structured pre-tested questionnaire was applied. Results: Among 543 women hospitalized due to abortion, 5 women din t finish their interview and 259 women (48%) had their abortion classified as possible, probable or certainly induced: 222 (85,7%), 11(4,3%) e 26 (10,0%), respectively. Only 25 women (among 259 questionnaires obtained) assumed to have induced abortion and only 9 of these reported the use of misoprostol. The incidence of infection and hemorrhagic complications was small. There was a significant difference between complications rates in women that assumed have induced abortion and in women that didn t assume it. However, there was no significant difference between complications in women that used misoprostol and in women that used other methods. The marital status was the only sociodemographic characteristic that demonstrated some relation with abortion classification and with complications: women without a partner had a superior rate of probable and certainly induced abortion and hemorrhagic complications. Eighty percent of women who didn t desire the gestation were using contraceptives methods. Conclusion: There was a small number of assumed induced abortions and a low incidence of complications. The coincidence of this study with news of police prosecution of women suspected of induced abortion may have interfered on women willingness to be sincere, while the use of misoprostol prevents any sign of induction. The data confirm the opinion that the frequency and severity of abortion complications had gone down, but do not allow to verify which role misoprostol played in that process. It will be necessary to wait some time until those news of police prosecution disappear from the headlines to then be possible to obtain more reliable data. Besides that, it is necessary to execute detailed studies about maternal mortality, which allow us to verify if the rate of maternal mortality related with abortion is as low as the national statistics rate.

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misoprostol misoprostol induced abortion abortion aborto induzido aborto - complicações e sequelas

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