Coexisting fibroid in pregnancy and its labour outcome in Nigeria

The management of coexisting uterine fibroid in pregnancy is controversial. There is the need to know the labour outcome of women with coexisting fibroid in pregnancy in our environment.

Objective: To ascertain the labour outcome of coexisting fibroid in pregnancy and the prevalence.

Materials and Method: The study is a retrospective one that reviewed 48 women with coexisting fibroid in pregnancy over a 30 month period.

Result: Out of 612 women that had antenatal care and delivery in our area of study, 48 of them had coexisting fibroid in pregnancy giving a prevalence of 7.8%.

The mean age of the parturients was 32.38 ± 5.22 years and most of the parturients were primiparous (56.3%). Up to 89.5% of them delivered at term and 89.6% of their babies had normal birth weight with good APGAR score in 79.2% of them. Their caesarean delivery rate was 79.2% and 2 successful caesarean myomectomies were done.

Conclusion: Fibroid can coexist with pregnancy with good outcome but they are prone to high caesarean delivery rate and at risk of uterine rupture. A low prevalence was recorded in our study and caesarean myomectomy is feasible in selected cases.