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0065/2015 - Subsequent pregnancies in women that had a pregnancy with syphilis
Gestações subsequentes em mulheres que tiveram sífilis na gestação

Author:

• Marjorie Garlow Hebmuller - Hebmuller, Marjorie Garlow - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Pediatria - <jogarlow@terra.com.br> +

Co-author(s):

• Eleonor Gastal Lago - Lago, Eleonor Gastal - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Pediatria - <eglago@pucrs.br>
• Humberto Holmer Fiori - Fiori, Humberto Holmer - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Pediatria - <hfiori@pucrs.br>

Thematic Area:

Políticas em Saúde

Abstract:

This study included pregnant women with positive serum tests for syphilis, attended between 1997 and 2004 at the Hospital São Lucas, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Subsequent obstetric outcomes among these patients were investigated by December 2011, searching for recurrent cases of the disease. Among 450 pregnant women attended between 1997 and 2004, 166 had at least one obstetric outcome until December 2011, totaling 266 new obstetrical outcomes included in the study. Congenital syphilis (SC) was observed in 81.9% of initial and in 68.4% of subsequent pregnancies. The main causes of SC in subsequent pregnancies were positivation of VDRL at delivery and undocumented treatment. VDRL titers were greater than 1:4 in 50.4% of patients in the first obstetrical outcomes and in 13.3% in the subsequent (p <0.001). The rate of stillbirth was 119/1000 in the initial pregnancies and 41/1000 in subsequent (p <0.01). Recurrence of SC was common in successive pregnancies of the same patient. The absence of prenatal care was the main risk factor for SC, both in the early as in subsequent pregnancies. The data suggest that in subsequent pregnancies more uninfected newborns were defined as cases of SC, due to insufficient information on prenatal antecedents of the pregnant woman.

Keywords:

Syphilis Congenital Prenatal Care Pregnancy

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Hebmuller, Marjorie Garlow, Lago, Eleonor Gastal, Fiori, Humberto Holmer. Subsequent pregnancies in women that had a pregnancy with syphilis. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2015/May). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/subsequent-pregnancies-in-women-that-had-a-pregnancy-with-syphilis/15131?id=15131



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