Eclampsia management at the Civil Hospital Medical Complex of Guadalajara
Panduro Barón, J.G.; Guzmán Sánchez, A.; Orozco Ibarra, L.G.; Medina Velarde, J.
Ginecologia y Obstetricia de Mexico 57: 223-225
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0300-9041 PMID: 2486956 Document Number: 326968
Prospectively from 1986 to 1988 we studied at the "Complejo Médico Hospital Civil de Guadalajara" 17 eclamptic patients treated with diazoxide besides magnesium sulfate, diazepam and dexamethasone. The average age was 25.4 years, the average gestational age was 33.5 weeks and the average dose of diazoxide was 210 mgs. In the 88.2% of the patients the general anesthesia was used. The average Apgar at minute was 6.6 and 8.8 at five minutes. The newborns average weight was 2,135 g. We had one maternal death (5.8%) and two perinatals demise (11.8%). The more frequent maternal complications were the blindness and oliguria postdelivery and the average maternal hospitalization was 5.7 days.