Medical Disorders in Pregnancy

At the end of this course, students should be able to: 1. list the various definitions and causes of anaemia in pregnancy; 2. explain the impact of anaemia in pregnancy on pregnancy outcome; 3. describe how to evaluate women with anaemia in pregnancy; 4. list the various management options of anaemia in pregnancy; 5. enumerate the classifications of heart disease in pregnancy; 6. explain how heart disease affect both maternal and foetal outcome; 7. describe how to evaluate women with heart disease in pregnancy; 127 8. recognise the need for prenatal fetal diagnosis; 9. enumerate the principles of patient care in pregnancy, labour and puerperium; 10. describe how thyroid disease can affect maternal and foetal outcome; 11. identify the need to modify drug treatment as some are teratogenic; 12. define the causative agent of HIV; 13. describe the transmission of HIV from mother to child during pregnancy, labour and after delivery; 14. enumerate drug therapy for HIV infection and describe the methods of prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV; 15. discuss breast feeding issues in infected mothers; and 16. illustrate how to monitor babies of infected mothers.

Anaemia in pregnancy. Heart disease in pregnancy. Malaria in pregnancy. Diabetes mellitus in pregnancy. Mental disorders in pregnancy and the puerperium. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/AIDS in pregnancy, (Pathophysiology). The haemoglobinopathies in pregnancy. Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). Obesity in pregnancy. Vomiting in pregnancy. Liver diseases in pregnancy. Viral infections in pregnancy. Other medical disorders in pregnancy. Surgical disorders in pregnancy.