Gaistruk N. A., Dubas L. G., Gaistruk A. N., Topolnitska S. V. Polyhydramnios of pregnant women and its relation with obstetric complications and perinatal disorders. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2017;7(2):319-327. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.376812 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/4323 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26.01.2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Author (s) 2017; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 02.02.2017. Revised 03.02.2017. Accepted: 05.02.2017. UDK 618.3:618.344-008.8:618.2 POLYHYDRAMNIOS OF PREGNANT WOMEN AND ITS RELATION WITH OBSTETRIC COMPLICATIONS AND PERINATAL DISORDERS N. A. Gaistruk, L. G. Dubas, A. N. Gaistruk, S. V. Topolnitska N. I. Pirogov Vinnitsa National Medical University, Vinnitsa Summary Paying attention to extremely high frequency and a huge variety of serious complications and consequences, pregnancy polyhydramnios is an important and urgent problem in obstetrics. Studies on this issue are mostly fragmented and focused mainly on the pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of disease, without revealing the molecular mechanisms of fetus distress. The relevance and practical importance of this work shows the fact that, except generalization and systematization of previous data there was conducted a detailed analysis of risk factors, prognosis of complications, given the prevention activities and also it focuses on comprehensive consideration of the problem and the need for cooperation between different sectors of medicine for better treatment and prevention of this pathology, which is an indisputable indicator of the importance of research. Key words: pregnancy, polyhydramnios, intrauterine infection, risk factors, prevention.