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Severe vomiting of pregnant women: a case from clinical practice

Nikolay Alexandrovich Zharkin, Mikhail Evgenievich Statsenko, Natalia Alexandrovna Burova, Olga Anatolyevna Leshina, Roman Gennadievich Myazin, Igor Yuryevich Statsenko

Волгоградский государственный медицинский университет, Волгоград, Россия

Abstract

Severe vomiting of pregnant women (hyperemesis gravidarum) is a debilitating and potentially life–threatening pregnancy disease characterized by weight loss, malnutrition, manifested in the first half of gestation and characterized by dyspeptic disorders, with metabolic disorders, frequent vomiting (11–15 times a day and more often), a decrease in body weight over 5 kg per week, an increase in body temperature to subfebrile figures (in 20–30 % of patients), ictericity of sclera and skin (in 20–30 % of pregnant women), hyperbilirubinemia up to 60 mmol/l, stool retention, oliguria and pronounced ketonuria (in 70–100 % of patients).

Keywords

severe vomiting of pregnant women, diagnosis, treatment, clinical case

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