PubMed Health⌕ Search

Biomedical subjects

O Marrakchi

Publications and source records attributed to O Marrakchi.

4 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1992

[Lipid evolution during normal pregnancy].

We analyzed the relationship between the evolution of pregnancy and the amplitude of the lipid disorders in order to evaluate their chronologic transformations. This research concerned 83 pregnancies aged between 19-40 years during the 3 periods of gestation and 31 healthy control women in the same range of age. Our results showed an increased triglyceride in the 2nd period and an earlier decrease of both, cholesterol, phospholipid and apolipoproteins. These parameters showed a progressive increase of their blood concentrations during the 2nd and the 3rd period of pregnancy, in an other hand we evidenced a good correlation between gestational aged and these variations i.e.: triglyceride and mother's weight; this phenomenon could suggest an eventual role of the nutrition and the hygienic habitude in the lipid metabolism. The correlation between our observed lipid disorders and the mother's age or the parity were not significant.

Apoproteins↗
PubMed1992

[Maternal mortality at the Maternity and Neonatology Center in Rabta of Tunis from 1986 to 1989].

We studied 29 cases of maternal death occurring over a period of 3 years in the "Centre de Maternité et de Néonatologie de La Rabta-Tunis"; managed by the same staff. 42,028 live births occurred during the study years with 43,220 total births from April 24th 1986 to April 23rd 1989. The maternal mortality rate was 69 per 100,000 live births. A maternal age of under 35, nulliparity and grand multiparity were found, as is well known, to be risk factors. Maternal transfer in obstructed labour from rural maternity units raises the maternal death risk 12 times: 14 deaths out of 29 occurred in transferred patients. Haemorrhage represents a quarter of the causes of death (8 cases) while anaesthetic accidents were responsible for one in six maternal deaths. Some factors were not found such as abruptio placentae, while others such as eclampsia were reduced. We concluded that the maternal mortality rate even though it has been reduced over the last 3 decades it is still high compared with developed countries. We can cut it in half by avoiding maternal transfer in labour.

Adolescent↗