(L.A.) Angel Allison, a Baby, Died in a Hospital

Case Number: 2016-01422

Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a Black female that occurred in a hospital.

The coroner’s office has identified the infant girl as Angel Allison.

Manner of Death: Natural

Cause of Death A: Extreme Prematurity

Cause of Death B: Emergent Premature Delivery at 22 Weeks Gestation

Cause of Death C: Maternal Cervical Incompetence

RIP ANGEL ALLISON (October 5, 2015 – October 5, 2015)

Formal pronouncement of death was made on Monday at 2:25 p.m.

Cervical incompetence, also called cervical weakness or cervical insufficiency, is a medical condition of pregnancy in which the cervix begins to dilate (widen) and efface (thin) before the pregnancy has reached term. This is the inability of the uterine cervix to retain a pregnancy in the absence of the signs and symptoms of clinical contractions, or labor, or both in the second trimester. Cervical weakness may cause miscarriage or preterm birth during the second and third trimesters. It has been estimated that cervical insufficiency complicates about 1% of pregnancies, and that it is a cause in about 8% of women with second trimester recurrent miscarriages.