Prevalence of gestational thrombocytopenia among selected group of pregnant women attended to soba university hospital, Sudan, July-September 2016
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2016
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جامعة الشيخ عبدالله البدري
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.