摘要
<strong>Introduction:</strong><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Medical termination of pregnancy is a therapy that considerably reduces the number of obstetrical complications that can lead to maternal death and the number of births of children with diseases or malformations that are incompatible with life. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Objective:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> To study the practice of medical termination of pregnancy at the Principal Clinic of the Togolese Association of Family Well-Being Planning Center (ATBEF). </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Methodology:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> This was a retrospective and descriptive study conducted at </span><a name="_Hlk92000043"></a><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the Principal Clinic of the Togolese Association of Family Well-Being Planning Center (ATBEF) covering the period from May 1st, 2012 to April 30th, 2021, </span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">i.e.</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> a period of 9 years. All patients who underwent a </span><a name="_Hlk91999250"></a><span style="font-family:Verdana;">medical termination of pregnancy during the study period and whose term of pregnancy was <28 weeks of amenorrhea were included in this study. Information was collected on a survey sheet from the patients’ clinical records, admission and hospitalisation registers, referral forms and operative report registers. Data were entered and analyzed using Excel, World and epi-info 7.2.2. The main variables studied were hospital frequency, diagnostic means, main indications, means of evacuation and maternal prognosis. Result: 25 patients were identified and represented 0.5% of deliveries. </span><a name="_Hlk92000366"></a><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Fetal, maternal and obstetric causes were the main indications for medical termination of pregnancy in respectively 28%, 20% and 52%. Obstetrical ultrasound was performed in 100% of patients. T
<strong>Introduction:</strong><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Medical termination of pregnancy is a therapy that considerably reduces the number of obstetrical complications that can lead to maternal death and the number of births of children with diseases or malformations that are incompatible with life. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Objective:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> To study the practice of medical termination of pregnancy at the Principal Clinic of the Togolese Association of Family Well-Being Planning Center (ATBEF). </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Methodology:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> This was a retrospective and descriptive study conducted at </span><a name="_Hlk92000043"></a><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the Principal Clinic of the Togolese Association of Family Well-Being Planning Center (ATBEF) covering the period from May 1st, 2012 to April 30th, 2021, </span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">i.e.</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> a period of 9 years. All patients who underwent a </span><a name="_Hlk91999250"></a><span style="font-family:Verdana;">medical termination of pregnancy during the study period and whose term of pregnancy was <28 weeks of amenorrhea were included in this study. Information was collected on a survey sheet from the patients’ clinical records, admission and hospitalisation registers, referral forms and operative report registers. Data were entered and analyzed using Excel, World and epi-info 7.2.2. The main variables studied were hospital frequency, diagnostic means, main indications, means of evacuation and maternal prognosis. Result: 25 patients were identified and represented 0.5% of deliveries. </span><a name="_Hlk92000366"></a><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Fetal, maternal and obstetric causes were the main indications for medical termination of pregnancy in respectively 28%, 20% and 52%. Obstetrical ultrasound was performed in 100% of patients. T
