Clinical and ethical issue regarding cesarean section in HIV young woman with severe tuberculous disease

S. Halichidis, S. C. Cambrea, M. M. Ilie, L. Irimiea, O. C. Arghir

Abstract: We present a case of a 21-year-old human immunodeficiency virus (positive woman), diagnosed with tuberculosis meningoencephalitis during the second month of pregnancy. Although the patient was advised to stop pregnancy, she declined it and delivered at 30 weeks by caesarean section. Death occurs in both the mother and the neonate.
DOI:10.18643/gieu.2013.138

Keywords: caesarean section, death, delivery, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, tuberculosis meningoencephalitis