title: Brief report: acute viral hepatitis and poor maternal and perinatal outcomes in pregnant Sudanese women.
abstract: Sixteen pregnant women presented at the three main hospitals in Khartoum province, Sudan during the period of March-September 2007 with features of acute viral hepatitis. Their mean (SD) gestational age was 28.0(6.7) weeks. The etiology of acute viral hepatitis was hepatitis B virus in five women (31.3%), hepatitis C virus in one woman (6.3%), hepatitis E virus in eight women (50%), and hepatitis non-A-to-E virus in two women (12.5%). There were four (25%) maternal deaths and three (18.7%) intrauterine fetal deaths. Three of these maternal deaths were due to hepatitis E virus and the fourth was due to hepatitis B virus.
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.
authors: Rihab E
authors: RE
authors: Ahmed
authors: Mubarak S
authors: MS
authors: Karsany
authors: Ishag
authors: I
authors: Adam
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D046689:Fetal Mortality; D006518:Hepatitis Viruses / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006525:Hepatitis, Viral, Human / Q000401:mortality* / Q000821:virology; D006801:Humans; D008428:Maternal Mortality; D054238:Perinatal Mortality; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000401:mortality* / Q000821:virology; D011446:Prospective Studies; D016036:Seroepidemiologic Studies; D013397:Sudan / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral