Abstract
Objective: To describe the mode and timing of termination of pregnancy in women with mild pre-eclampsia.
Methodology: Study population was pregnant females with pre-eclampsia. Data were collected by non-probability convenience sampling from records of Obstetrics Department, Lady Willingdon Hospital, Lahore and was analyzed through SPSS version 17.
Results: The study comprised of 161 pregnant women with pre-eclampsia. Out of these, 70(43.5%) had mild pre-eclampsia and 91(56.5%) had severe pre-eclampsia. For the mild pre-eclampsia pregnant women, gestational age at diagnosis was observed to be strongly associated with maternal complications, fetal death, eclampsia and post partum hemorrhage (p<0.05). Mild pre-eclampsia was also statistically associated with birth weight (2.3±0.49) and apgar scores (9.00±1.02) of the fetus (p<0.05). Most frequent mode of delivery was C-section (44.2%) followed by normal delivery (38.6%) while natural induction was 12.9% and duly induction was 4.3% (p<0.05).
Conclusion: We found that 43.5% patients were diagnosed with mild pre-eclampsia at 38 weeks of gestational age. The most common method of delivery was C-section. However, normal delivery in pre-eclampsia women beyond 36 weeks of gestation should also be considered.

Key words: Pre-eclampsia, C-section delivery, hypertension