Tweetable abstract:
Post-mortem examination of a baby following spontaneous or missed miscarriage in the second trimester or intrauterine death may provide a complete or partial explanation of the pregnancy loss. Autopsy is the single most useful investigation and provides information that adds to the clinical diagnosis in nearly half of cases and is also a valuable audit of clinical care.
We have analysed 100 cases for etiological diagnosis in still birth/ intrauterine deaths and suggest that post mortem comprehensive evaluation has a diagnostic yield of 86% and reducing the unexplained causes to 14%