Abstract

Objectives: Identify obstetric and perinatal complications in pregnant adolescents and the gestational age of presentation.

Material  and  methods: Transversal descriptive  study in  pregnant  adolescents,  all  those  who over the years 2015-2017 presented pregnancy were studied. We studied prevalence and  gestational  age  of  presentation of obstetrics complications  as  abortion,  urinary  tract  infection,  cervicovaginal  infection,  preeclampsia/eclampsia, premature  rupture  of  membranes, preterm labor; also we evaluated the condition of the product to the birth as weight,  apgarpunctuation,  prematurity,  hyaline  membrane  and  jaundice.  The  statistical  analysis included confidence interval.

Results:  The  urinary  tract  infections  prevalence  is  40.5%  (CI  95%;  30.9-50.1), at 20.42 weeks  (CI  95%; 17.69-23.15),  abortion  prevalence is 22.7% (IC  95%; 14.4-31.0) at 9.69  weeks  (CI  95%;  8.48-10.9), and  premature  rupture  of  membranes  is 7.0%  (IC 95%; 1.9-12.0) at 35.29 weeks (CI 95%; 30.86-39.71).

Conclusions: The obstetric complications prevalence and gestational age of presentation in pregnant adolescents was identified.

Keywords

obstetric, complications, pregnant, adolescents