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KMID : 0358419750180110909
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Korean Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
1975 Volume.18 No. 11 p.909 ~ p.914
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Syphilis in pregnancy
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장은실/Chang ES
김석애/유한기/강신명/Kim SA/Yoo HK/Kang SM
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Abstract
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The incidence of syphilis had been markedly decreased after the introduction of penicillin in the treatment of syphilis in 1943. Since 1958, however there has been an unmistakable upward trend in many parts of the world. As syphilis in pregnancy is injurious to mother nad fetus it is very important to prevent or treat syphilis in pregnancy. To detect syphilis in the early stage of pregnancy, antenatal care including the serological test for syphilis in pregnant women is necessary. During a period of 3 years and 8 months from May 1969 to December 1972, 7435 women were delivered at Ewha Womans University Hospital. Among them 6742 pregnant women were examined, of whom 81 (1.20%) had positive V.D.R.L and R.P.C.F. test. Only 4 (4.94%) among the 81 syphilitic patients took antenatal care, and remaining almost all the syphilitic patients found to be syphilis just before orat delivery. Whenever and wherever antenatal serological tests for syphils are carried out routinely, the incidence of congenital syphilis and obsteric complication such as abortion prematurity and stillbirth fall and remain low. Of the 81 syphilitic patients 17 and 16 patients delivered premature babies and stillbirths respectively and 6 perinatal deaths were developed.
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