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eclampsiaConvulsions occurring during pregnancy following pre-eclampsia. |
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Reasons for these high death rates include eclampsia, postpartum hemorrhage, HIV infection, malaria, and obstructed labor. Greater proportions of women who had had a cesarean experienced medical complications in their second pregnancies, including anemia, cardiac disease, diabetes, chronic hypertension, preeclampsia, eclampsia and placental disorders. According to WHO, the most common direct causes of these deaths are severe bleeding (25 percent), infection (15 percent), ravages of an unsafe abortion (13 percent), eclampsia (12 percent), and obstructed labor (8 percent). |
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