Meredith Mathieu, Véronique Lambert, Gabriel Carles, Olivier Picone, Jean-François Carod, Léo Pomar, Mathieu Nacher, Najeh Hcini
OBJECTIVE: We aimed to describe the epidemiology of intrauterine fetal deaths in multiethnic western French Guiana and to assess its main causes and risk factors. STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective descriptive study was conducted based on data from January 2016 to December 2021. All information on stillbirth with a gestational age ≥20 weeks in the Western French Guiana Hospital Center was extracted. Terminations of pregnancy were excluded. We focused on medical history, clinical investigation, biological findings, placental histology, and autopsy examination to elucidate the cause of death...
June 2023: European journal of obstetrics & gynecology and reproductive biology: X