[Avoidable perinatal deaths and prenatal consultation (author's transl)].

Perinatal deaths may be avoided by the prenatal consultation. We show that women with a previous preterm delivery may have a term child if they are correctly followed, that adolescent pregnancies can have term birth with good social support and medical support. We show that uterine height (pubis-fundus) is a good measure of fetal development, giving a better prediction of term weight compared to echotomography from 28 to 36 weeks, afterwhat echo is obviously better. This means that simple clinical measures can reduce during pregnancy important causes of perinatal deaths.