1Lecturer, Biomedical Engineering Department Faculty of Engineering, Al-Nahrian University
2Lecturer, Tikrit University, College of Medicine
3Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Al-Karama General Hospital
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Shaymaa Jaafar, M.B.ch. B, C.A.B.O.G, F.I.C.O.G, Baghdad, Iraq, Email: shaimaashimary@yahoo.com
Online published on 4 June, 2019.
Uterine rupture is a known catastrophic event in obstetrics, often resulting in both maternal and fetal consequences. This event occurs more in developing countries, with a varying global incidence.
To assess the incidence and the main causes of the rupture uterus.
This was a four years prospective cross-sectional descriptive study done in 4 years duration, from the first of 2015 to the end of 2018, involving all cases of delivery at Al-Elwiah teaching hospital. The hospital serves as a major referral center for Obstetrics and Gynecology in Baghdad Al-Resafa, (n=32246) women who delivered at the hospital in this period.
The women age between 15–40 years old, and out of 32246 of women who delivered in our hospital about (n=148) of cases was undergo ruptured uterus, giving a rupture rate of 4.6 per 1, 000 births, 44.6% (n=66) of these cases of rupture occurred in unscarred uterus (2/1000) and the rest with scared uterus. Most of the cases of unscarred rupture were aged between 26 and 35 years, and had parity of 3 or above.
The incidence of unscarred rupture uterus was (2/1000) and the main cause was multiparty and delivery by midwife.
Unscarred uterus, multiparty, midwife, Al-Elwiah teaching hospital
