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%