title: [Maternal mortality in adolescents at the university hospital of Ouagadougu].
abstract: This retrospective study evaluates the adolescent mortality rate at the University Hospital of Ouagadougou in the year 1995. Twenty lethal cases were collected amongst 646 deliveries giving birth to 490 children. The in-hospital adolescent maternal mortality rate come to be 4081 for 100,000 living births (4.08%) and represented 16.3% of all maternal deaths occurring during the study period. The most frequent causes of death were related to clandestine abortion (30%) and chronic anemia due to malnutrition (30%). Pregnancy in an adolescent girl is a high-risk event that requires special care due to a precarious global health status.
authors.affiliation: Service de Gynécologie et d'Obstétrique du Centre Hospitalier National Yalgado Ouedraogo de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lankoande
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Ouedraogo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ouedraogo
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Tieba
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Akotionga
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sanou
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kone
mesh_terms: D000024:Abortion, Illegal / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002050:Burkina Faso; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D008428:Maternal Mortality; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000401:mortality; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012189:Retrospective Studies