Evaluation of complications associated with twin pregnancy

Objective: to describe the various complications encountered in antenatal,intrapartum and postnatal period in patients with twin pregnancy study design: it was a cross sectional survey sampling technique: convenient sampling place of study: department of obstetrics and gynecology,nawaz sharif social security teaching hospital,multan road,lahore. methods: all the patients with twin pregnancy during the year 2011 and 2012 were included except those who delivered before 22 weeks of gestation. percentage of different complications was calculated. results: most of the patients were at extremes of parity either primigravida or grandmultipara. age of the patients were either < 20 years or > 35 years. most common complication was anemia in 62% cases followed by preterm labour in 59% cases. more than 40% of total preterm deliveries were before 34 weeks of gestation. incidence of abdominal delivery was 45%. most of the babies were less than 2500 grams. in all stages of pregnancy,twins showed increased rate of complications.