摘要

objective: to describe the most common obstetric complications encountered during periods of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium, in pregnancies with fetuses that presented anomalies incompatible with life. methods: this is a descriptive study, which assessed 78 medical charts of patients in the prenatal fetal medicine division of the federal university of sˋo paulo; the women gave birth at the same institution, between 2000 and 2006. results: the major obstetric complications identified were: variation in the volume of amniotic fluid (68%), miscarriage, pre-term labor and prolonged pregnancy were present in 6.4%, 55.1% and 3.8% of pregnancies, respectively; intra-uterine fetal death, 17.9%, abruptio placenta occurred in 6.4% and hysterectomy in 2.6%. conclusion: these results suggest that fetus with severe anomalies presented an increase of the risk for pregnancies, which demonstrates the need for expert evaluation in each case.

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