Maternal and perinatal outcomes of eclampsia in Gadarif Hospital, Sudan.

This study aimed to investigate the incidence of eclampsia and its maternal and perinatal outcome in the Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Gadarif, Sudan from March 2007 to April 2009. There were 45 cases of eclampsia in 8,894 deliveries (5/1,000). Some 62% of first convulsions occurred antepartum, 15.5% occurred intrapartum, and the rest (11.1%) occurred postpartum. Ten patients died and there were 16 (35.5%) perinatal deaths; eight of these were stillbirths and eight were early neonatal deaths.