A clinical classification of the mechanisms of perinatal wastage.
A clinical classification of perinatal morbidity and mortality should be based upon the pathophysiological mechanisms which affect the fetus and newborn infant, resulting in this morbidity and mortality. Each mechanism is a distinctive disturbance which may be regarded as the common pathway for expression of insults to the fetus and newborn infant arising from a wide variety of obstetric abnormalities and specific disease entities. The following classification of mechanisms incorporating the whole spectrum of perinatal problems is proposed: (1) developmental abnormality; (2) immaturity and prematurity; (3) chronic fetal insufficiency; (4) acute fetal insufficiency; (5) newborn respiratory failure; (6) blood group incompatibility; (7) infection, and (8) trauma.
D001787:Blood Group Incompatibility; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities; D005314:Embryonic and Fetal Development; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death / Q000209:etiology*; D005315:Fetal Diseases; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases; D007234:Infant, Premature; D007239:Infections; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious; D049188:Prenatal Injuries; D012127:Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn