Since the evening of January 15, 2016, a red header file printed with [Institute of Physical and Chemical Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences] has been widely circulated on the Internet.
It turns out that this is a 26-week-old female employee of the Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences who was admitted to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Third Hospital of Peking University on December 28, 2015 due to [hypertension complicated with preeclampsia]. However, on January 11, 2016, the situation of the pregnant woman changed significantly and the rescue was ineffective and she died.
How did a pregnant woman die?
According to the official statement given by the Third Hospital of Beiyi Medical College, the pregnant woman has suffered from hypertension for more than 10 years and has also suffered from [preeclampsia].
Key words: preeclampsia
Preeclampsia is a disease state, which refers to hypertension during pregnancy, which is manifested by abnormal increase of blood pressure and urine protein.
Pregnant women with preeclampsia need to strengthen management during pregnancy and keep observing their illness. However, some pregnant women do not think much of prenatal examination and even do not know that they have preeclampsia and do not report to the hospital until they are about to give birth. This is really very dangerous!
Hypertension during pregnancy will threaten the health and even life of pregnant women and fetuses. It needs to be found and controlled as soon as possible. If necessary, it is even necessary to terminate pregnancy, let the child be born in advance, or induce labor.
According to the information released by the Third Hospital of North Medical College, it is preliminarily determined that the cause of sudden death of pregnant women is [aortic dissection rupture], and so is the autopsy result.
Key words: aortic dissection rupture
When the blood pumped by our heart flows to all parts of the body except the lungs, the first blood vessel to pass through is the thick aorta.
The aorta is thick and thick, divided into three layers. If the blood flow pressure is too high (such as the whole body blood volume is very high in the late pregnancy, or when there is hypertension), the blood flow may damage the intima of the aorta, infuse between the intima and the adventitia, forming a bulging ball, which is aortic dissection.
If the aortic dissection ruptures, a large amount of blood may be lost in a very short period of time, killing people and making it difficult to rescue them.
Aortic dissection and preeclampsia are two independent diseases, but both are related to hypertension and are very dangerous [killers].
This is not the first time
Another netizen said that the pregnant woman was actually pregnant for the second time.
The last time, she had to give birth prematurely because of severe eclampsia at the 28th week of pregnancy. At that time, both adults and children survived. However, the child contracted pneumonia a few days later and died.
Key words: premature delivery
In general, we will call a child born after 37 weeks of pregnancy [term infant], while a child born after 28 to 37 weeks of pregnancy for various reasons is [premature infant].
Compared with full-term infants, In addition to the obvious low weight of premature infants, The most vulnerable is the respiratory system. In addition, premature infants may also have heart insufficiency, brain injury, infection and other issues. Generally speaking, the causes of premature delivery mainly include pregnant women’s own diseases, multiple births, test-tube babies, pregnant women smoking, drinking or drug abuse, etc. If pregnant women have had a history of abortion or premature delivery, premature delivery is also more likely to occur.
In addition, pregnant women who have suffered from severe eclampsia are pregnant again, and there is a high risk that they will suffer from the disease again!
Is there any way to prevent it?
Although the medical conditions have been greatly improved now, unfortunately, at the current medical level, we have not been able to fundamentally prevent gestational hypertension, eclampsia, aortic dissection or premature delivery except to actively maintain observation.
If there is a conflict between the life safety of the mother and the fetus, the doctor will first consider the health of the pregnant woman, because the fetus depends on the mother to survive, and the safety of the mother can ensure the safety of the fetus.
People who are mothers can understand that they have worked so hard to conceive a child that no one wants to give up easily. However, if there is a situation that endangers the life of the pregnant woman, the doctor also suggests terminating the pregnancy in time and must not take life as a bet!
The unfortunate outcome of this pregnant woman is something everyone does not want to see. May the deceased rest in peace and may there be more breakthroughs in medicine in the near future to better prevent and treat these diseases.