Panorama of Medical Diseases in Pregnant and Postpartum Women in Internal Medicine at the University Hospital Center of the Point G

Abstract

The description of the epidemiological aspects of all medical pathologies associated with pregnancy and postpartum would provide relevant anamnestic orientation indices that could be taken into account in the global diagnostic and therapeutic approach in internal medicine. Panoramic studies of medical pathologies associated with pregnancy and postpartum have rarely been carried out in Africa, particularly in Mali. The objective of this observational cross-sectional and descriptive study with retrospective data collection for 5 years was to describe the epidemiological and clinical aspects of all medical pathologies associated with pregnancy and postpartum in internal medicine at the University Hospital Center of the Point G in Bamako. Globally, 1846 patients were admitted among which 49 pregnant or postpartum women presented a medical pathology (2.65%). The average age was 27.29 ± 5.84 years. The medical pathologies frequently associated with pregnancy and postpartum in our study were: cardiovascular pathologies (peripartum cardiomyopathy, pulmonary embolism); infectious pathologies (esophageal candidiasis on HIV infection and cerebral toxoplasmosis on HIV infection; digestive pathologies (hepatic cirrhosis).