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Item does not contain fulltext OBJECTIVE: To describe the maternal and neonatal outcomes and prolongation of pregnancies with severe early onset pre-eclampsia before 26 weeks of gestation. DESIGN: Nationwide case series. SETTING: All Dutch tertiary perinatal care centres. POPULATION: All women diagnosed with severe pre-eclampsia who delivered between 22 and 26 weeks of gestation in a tertiary perinatal care centre in the Netherlands, between 2008 and 2014. METHODS: Women were identified through computerised hospital databases. Data were collected from medical records. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Maternal complications [HELLP (haemolysis, elevated liver enzyme levels, and low platelet levels) syndrome, eclampsia, pulmonary oedema, cerebrovascular incidents, hepatic capsular rupture, placenta abruption, renal failure, and maternal death], neonatal survival and complications (intraventricular haemorrhage, retinopathy of prematurity, necrotising enterocolitis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, and sepsis), and outcome of subsequent pregnancies (recurrent pre-eclampsia, premature delivery, and neonatal survival). RESULTS: We studied 133 women, delivering 140 children. Maternal complications occurred frequently (54%). Deterioration of HELLP syndrome during expectant care occurred in 48%, after 4 days. Median prolongation was 5 days (range: 0-25 days). Neonatal survival was poor (19%), and was worse (6.6%) if the mother was admitted before 24 weeks of gestation. Complications occurred frequently among survivors (84%). After active support, neonatal survival was comparable with the survival of spontaneous premature neonates (54%). Pre-eclampsia recurred in 31%, at a mean gestational age of 32 weeks and 6 days. CONCLUSIONS: Considering the limits of prolongation, women need to be counselled carefully, weighing the high risk for maternal complications versus limited neonatal survival and/or extreme prematurity and its sequelae. The positive prospects regarding maternal and neonatal outcome in future pregnancies can supplement counselling. TWEETABLE ABSTRACT: Severe early onset pre-eclampsia comes with high maternal complication rates and poor neonatal survival.

Contains fulltext : 136935.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) OBJECTIVE: Maternal morbidity, either pregnancy related or pre-existent, can become life threatening and of such severity as to warrant termination of pregnancy (TOP). In this situation, chances of fetal survival are usually poor, either because of low gestational age and/or because of the fetal effects of the maternal condition. Examples include severe growth restriction in pre-eclampsia and intrauterine infection due to the very early preterm prelabour rupture of membranes. There are very few reports on the prevalence of TOP for maternal indication at the limits of fetal viability. We investigated the prevalence of and indications for TOP on maternal indication in the 10 tertiary care centres in the Netherlands during the past decade. STUDY DESIGN: We conducted a retrospective review of the medical records of all women who underwent TOP for maternal indications between 22 and 27 completed weeks of gestation in all 10 tertiary care centres from 2000 to 2009. RESULTS: During the study period, there were 1 929 470 deliveries; 163 052 (8.4%) of these took place in one of the 10 tertiary care centres and 177 pregnancies were terminated for severe maternal disease, 131 for hypertensive disorders, 29 for intrauterine infection and 17 for other reasons. The mean gestational age at TOP was 171 days (24(3/7))+/-10 days. No maternal deaths were recorded. The overall perinatal mortality was 99.4%. CONCLUSIONS: Over a 10-year period, TOP for maternal indications was performed in 1 in 1000 deliveries in the 10 Dutch tertiary care centres. Hypertensive disorders comprised three-quarters of the cases.

Objectives To ascertain the incidence and demographic data of TOP for hypertensive disorders at the limits of fetal viability. Methods We conducted a retrospective cohort study. All terminations for hypertensive disorders between 2000 and 2009 in the ten Dutch tertiary care centers with a gestational age between 22 and 28 weeks were included. In all cases the fetus was judged to be non-viable, either because of the low gestational age or because of the effects of the maternal condition on the fetus. There was no intention to intervene for fetal indications. Results During the study period TOP for hypertensive disorders occurred in 0.8 promille (131/163.052) of all deliveries in these 10 centers, of which there were 126 singleton and five twin pregnancies. 94 women were nulliparous and 37 multiparous. The main indication for TOP was HELLP syndrome. General history revealed hypertension in 24 women (18.3%). History was unremarkable in 98 cases (75%). The mean gestational age at admission was 166 days ± 9.6 days (GA 23+5), and at delivery this was 173 days ± 9.7 days (GA 24 + 5 weeks). The mean birth weight was 472 ± 123 g (70% Conclusions In 10 years there we identified 131 cases of TOP for hypertensive disorders prior to fetal viability in The Dutch tertiary care centers. Ninety-eight women (75%) had no preexisting maternal disease. Table 1. Indications for termination of pregnancy. N = number. Indication N (%) HELLP syndrome 80 (61.1) Preeclampsia 40 (30.5) Eclampsia 7 (5.3) Refractory hypertension 4 (3) Disclosures L. van Eerden: None.