JPSIM Journal of Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine J Pak Soc Intern Med 2709-8729 2710-0804 Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine 10.70302/jpsim.v3i4.2265 jpsim.v3i4.2265 Original Research To Compare the Frequency of Adverse Outcomes of Severe Versus Mild Oligohydramnios at Full Term Zafar Abeerah bluestrawberry_2@live.com * Shauket Kamran Fatima Nida Abbas Sibghat Nawaz Mehwish Shahbaz Samia Sahiwal Teaching Hospital Sahiwal BHU Kalri Chiniot THQ Hospital Bhowana Chiniot Mayo Hospital Lahore Shalamar Medical & Dental College, Lahore *Correspondence: Abeerah Zafar (bluestrawberry_2@live.com) 18 12 2022 2022 3 4 331 335 26 07 2022 28 09 2022 Copyright © 2022 The Author(s) 2022 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective

Oligohydramnios is a disorder that occurs in pregnancy and is characterized by an amniotic fluid deficiency. To determine the frequency of severe oligohydramnios in pregnant females at term presenting diagnosis of oligohydramnios and to compare the frequency of adverse outcomes of severe versus mild oligohydramnios at term.

 Methodology

The Descriptive case series was held in Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, CMH, Okara for 06 months i.e. from 28-12-2019 to 29-6-2020. Keeping in view the inclusion criteria, 100 pregnant females were enrolled. Then females underwent ultrasound and level of AFI was noted. If AFI

 Results

The mean age group of females was 27.39±3.4 years. The severe oligohydramnios was found in 50 (50%) patients. When were compare the adverse outcome with oligohydramnios we found that the C-section [mild oligohydramnios =26 (52%) & in severe oligohydramnios =33(66%) females], perinatal death [mild oligohydramnios =3(6%) & in severe oligohydramnios =6(12%) females], low Apgar score in [mild oligohydramnios =26(52%) & in severe oligohydramnios=33(66%) females], similarly the low birth weight [mild oligohydramnios =1(2%) & in severe oligohydramnios=2(4%) females]. The adverse outcome showed statistically insignificant difference i.e. p-value>0.05.

 Conclusion

About half oligohydramnios patients had severe oligohydramnios, while there is no significant association of mild or severe oligohydramnios with adverse feto-maternal outcome.

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