Delayed Interval Delivery in Multiple Pregnancies. Is Optimism Justified?

Autor: Doorn, Helena C. van, van Wezel-Meijler, Gerda, Geijn, Herman P. van, Dekker, Gustaaf A.
Zdroj: Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey; April 2000, Vol. 55 Issue: 4 p207-209, 3p
Abstrakt: Advancing maternal age and the frequent use of assisted reproductive methods have combined to produce an epidemic of multiple pregnancies. This study evaluated delayed-interval delivery by retrospectively analyzing 80 multiple pregnancies when one child was born at a gestational age of 16 to 31 weeks. In 65 instances, either it was not possible to arrest labor after delivery of the first child or this was not considered. The remaining 15 cases, 9 of them associated with assisted reproductive methods, were allocated to three outcome groups any attempt to delay subsequent delivery that did not succeed for longer than 3 hours (group I), prolonging pregnancy for longer than 3 hours with delivery before 28 weeks’ gestation (group II), and delivery after 28 weeks’ gestation (group III).
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