Jiménez PS, Pentón CRJ, Cairo GVM, Cabrera BR, Chávez BLA, Álvarez MMC

Language: Spanish
References: 13
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists define fetal macrosomia as having a birth weight equal or greater than 4 500 grams; this entity is associated with a high perinatal and maternal mortality and morbidity.
Objective: to determine the manifestation of risk factors in patients with macrosomia.
Method: a transversal and descriptive observational study was performed. A number of 123 patients were chosen randomly from the total of born alive with fetal macrosomia in the period studied by means of a simple random sampling; the studied variable were risk factors for macrosomia, which were divided in maternal and fetal, maternal age, delivery way and birth weight.
Results: the greater number of macrosomic births occurred between 20 to 34 years of age, maternal obesity predominated and estimated fetal weight was equal or greater than 4500 grams in patients with dystocic delivery (p = 0,003 and p = 0,000, respectively). The greater number of newly born infants weighed between 4500 and 4999 grams, and most of the patients had one or more risk factors for macrosomia.
Conclusions: the presence of risk factors is very frequent in patients with fetal macrosomia; their adequate recognition and follow-up will favor best maternal and perinatal results.

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