Introduction To investigate the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 in pregnancy in Senegal. Methods This was a cross-sectional and descriptive study of all cases of COVID-19 including nine pregnant women who were admitted in COVID-19 treatment centers in Senegal from March 2 to May 15, 2020. SARS-COV-2 infection was confirmed by PCR. Patients’ characteristics, clinical features, treatment and outcome were obtained with a customized data collection form. Results The frequency of the association COVID-19 and pregnancy was 0.5%. The age range of the patients was 18-42 years with an average 28 years, and the range of gestational weeks at admission was 7 weeks to 32 weeks. None of the patients had underlying diseases. All the patients presented with a headache and only four of them had fever. Other symptoms were also observed: two patients had a cough, two had rhinorrhea, and two patients reported poor appetite. The median time to recovery was 13.6 days, corresponding to the number of days in hospital. None of the nine pregnant women developed severe COVID-19 pneumonia or died. Conclusion Pregnant women appear to have the same contamination predispositions and clinical features of SARS-COV-2 infection as the general population. This study shows no evidence that pregnant women are more susceptible to infection with coronavirus.

Background: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are a frequent situation and involve about 8%-10% of pregnancies. Extremes maternal ages have been associated to hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. In Africa, even if motherhood in teens is common, pregnancy at advanced age is getting more and more frequent. Objectives: To investigate the relation between maternal age and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. Methods: A retrospective cohort study over 8 years was conducted in a suburb setting in Dakar, Senegal. The participants were divided into two groups based on the occurrence of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP). Data were extracted from E-Perinatal, our electronic medical recording system and analyzed using SPSS 20.0 and R Studio software version 1.1.383.51. Maternal and perinatal outcomes were assessed over 3 age groups: <19 years, >34 years and 19-34 years old. Results: The study included 2226 cases of HDP out of 36,499 deliveries leading to an incidence of 6.1%. The proportions of nulliparous, multiple pregnancies and maternal diabetes were higher in women with HDP. The risk of high blood pressure among mothers aged 35 years and over was 1.6 times as high as the risk among those aged 19-34 years at a significant level before and after adjusting for third factors i.e. parity, multiple pregnancy and diabetes. However, adolescents were found to have the same risk compared to their counterparts aged 19-34 years. Risk of eclampsia was 4 times greater among adolescent girls. Conclusion: Advanced maternal age greater than or equal to 35 years is a risk factor for high blood pressure. There is no extra risk in adolescent girls with regard to high blood pressure; however, risk of eclampsia was higher in this group.

Objectives: To evaluate the prognosis of obstetric complications by parity in a suburban center in Dakar. Patients and Method: We conducted a retrospective and prospective, cross-sectional study that evaluated all women admitted to the Philippe Maguilen Senghor Health Center for the management of their pregnancy (childbirth, abortion, ectopic pregnancy), whether they were primiparous or multiparous. The data for this study covered a 66-month period, from January 1, 2012 to June 30, 2017. Data were entered into our E-perinatal computer database. They were then extracted and analyzed first on Microsoft Excel 2016 and then on SPSS 24, Windows version. Results: Between January 2012 and June 2017, we've registered 27,441 patients including 25,905 deliveries, 1415 abortions and 121 ectopic pregnancies. Direct obstetric complications involved 14.1% of our patients. 12.1% multiparous and 17.3% primiparous had at least one direct obstetric complication of World Health Organization (WHO). Antepartum haemorrhage, uterine rupture, ectopic pregnancy, and abortion complications were more common in multipara, whereas prolonged and obstructed labor, preeclampsia, and eclampsia were more common in primiparous women. Postpartum haemorrhage occurred at substantially equal frequencies in both parity groups. We had not found any case of sepsis. Conclusion: Our study confirms that primiparity is a factor that may lead to obstetric complications. However, while some complications were more common in the primiparous, others were exclusive to multiparous when we did not expect it. We also recommend continuing this work by singling out multiparas and large multiparas, in order to better understand the obstetric prognosis linked to parity.

INTRODUCTIONConsistency, reliability and exhaustivity of information in Medicine is the bedrock of any intervention aimed at improving health and health interventions particularly in the realm of maternal and child health. To preserve information collected on every day activity, processed, analysed and exchanged, databases are required, which ABSTRACT Background: Evaluate the consistency of information in paper-based records when registered in parallel with an electronic medical record. Methods: The study was performed at PMSHC in Dakar Senegal. From the end of year 2016, patients' files were recorded on both paper-based and electronically. Additionally, previous records were electronically registered. To investigate the completeness of records before and after the electronic recording system has been implemented, information about some maternal and fetal/neonatal characteristics were assessed. When the variable was recorded, the system returned 1, unrecorded variables were coded as 0. We then calculated, for each variable, the unrecorded rate before 2017 and after that date. The study period extended from 2011 to June 2019, a nearly ten-year period. Data were extracted from E-perinatal to MS excel 2019 then SPSS 25 software. Frequencies of unrecorded variables were compared with chi-squared test at a level of significance of 5%. Results: A total of 48,270 unique patients' records were identified during the eight-year period. Among the study population, data for patients' age, address and parity were available most of the time before and after 2017 (0.5% missing data versus 0.3% for age and 2.6% versus 1.3% for home address and from 0.3% to 0.0% for parity). However, phone number, maternal weight, maternal height, last menstrual period and blood group were found to be missing up to 96% before 2017. From 2017, these rates experienced a sudden decrease at a significant level: from 82.4% to 27.8% for phone number, from 96% to 56.3% for maternal weight and from 60.1% to 21.3% for blood group. Regarding newborns' data, it was found that fetal height, head circumference and chest circumference were missing up to just under 25% before 2017. After that date, their completeness improved and flattened under 5%. Conclusions: Structured and computerized files reduce missing data. There is an urgent need the Ministry of health provides hospitals and health care providers with guidelines that describes the standardized information that should be gathered and shared in health and care records.