Abstract
Objective: To identify in the literature the main causes associated with fetal death. Methods: It is an integrative literature review with a search in the database of BIREME (Regional Library of Medicine) using the descriptors: ‘’ Fetal death ”,“ fetal death ”; "Pregnancy High Risk" and "High Risk Pregnancy". Inclusion criteria consisted of articles published in the last five years, with full text available. After selecting the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 09 articles read in full were selected and their information was compacted and organized. Results: The most prevalent causes of fetal deaths prevailed: hypertensive maternal disorder; placental complications; placenta previa and diabetes. These reasons for fetal death were associated with pregnant women over the age of 35, in addition to having some risk factors, such as: low socioeconomic status, smoking, drug use, obesity and pregnant women who had poor quality prenatal care and scarcity in intrapartum follow-up. Final considerations: It is considerable to emphasize the importance of perinatal mortality indicators, which indicate the health status and quality of care provided to pregnant women.