Maternal near miss and mortality in a tertiary care hospital in Rwanda

Table 2 Primary causes of Severe Maternal Outcome (SMO) and Mortality (M) in Rwanda

Condition	SMM and M, number (%)	Maternal deaths
Peritonitis	58(30)	16
Hemorrhage	45(18.7)	10
Hypertensive disease	55(28.6)	9
Cancer	5(1.5)	4
-pancreatic (1)
-breast cancer (2)
-leukemia (1)
Cardiomyopathy	7(3.6)	3
Malaria	6(3)	2
Pulmonary Embolism	2 (2.2)	0
Pulmonary Disease	1 (1.1)	1
Diabetes	2(2.2)
-severe hypoglycemia,
-diabetic coma
Hepatic Disease	2(2.2)	0
-cirrhosis
-hepatic abscess
Neurologic	2(2.2)
-stroke postpartum
-coma of unknown etiology)
Anesthetic complications	2(2.2)
Epilepsy	1 (1.1)	0
Other*	7(3.6)	5
Total number of patients experiencing severe maternal morbidity + mortality^a	192	50

^athe total number of patients =192, although some patients experienced more than one severe morbidity
Other causes of severe maternal morbidity and mortality included: motor vehicle accident (1), Mallory Weiss syndrome (1), tonsillitis treated with traditional medicine resulting in sepsis and death (1), hemothorax(1) anaphylactic shock(1)

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