Prevalence of gestational thrombocytopenia among selected group of pregnant women attended to soba university hospital, Sudan, July-September 2016
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2018-12-26
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جامعة الشيخ عبدالله البدري
Abstract
Abstract
Background: Gestational thrombocytopenia, also known as incidental thrombocytopenia
of pregnancy, is the commonest cause of thrombocytopenia in pregnancy occurring in
approximately 75% of cases, it occurs in the middle of the second trimester and the third
trimester and is not associated with maternal bleeding.
Rationale: Gestational thrombocytopenia may lead to severe complications for both
pregnant lady and her fetus.
Objectives: To know the prevalence of gestational thrombocytopenia among selected
group of pregnant ladies.
Materials and methods
Descriptive cross sectional study, blood specimen was collected from 100 pregnant ladies
and examined by full automated haematological analyzer.
Result: There is no reported case of gestational thrombocytopenia among all pregnant
ladies involved in the study (0%).
Discussion: Globally gestational thrombocytopenia is considered when platelets count
is below 116.000cell/μl of blood, no one of participants down to this number then the
percentage of gestational thrombocytopenia among the study group (0%) is lower than the
normal reference range of gestational thrombocytopenia (7-8%). Conclusion: There is no
gestational thrombocytopenia among the pregnant ladies involved in the study.
Recommendation: Further studies should be done involving pregnant ladies from different
racial group to know the effect of race on the number of platelets during pregnancy