Prophylactic use of the Arabin cervical pessary in fetuses with severe congenital diaphragmatic hernia treated by fetoscopic endoluminal tracheal occlusion (FETO): preliminary experience

Autor: Oana, Dobrescu, Mieke M, Cannie, Anne-Gael, Cordier, Carlota, Rodó, Isabella, Fabietti, Alexandra, Benachi, Elena, Carreras, Nicola, Persico, Ivan, Hurtado, Léonardo, Gucciardo, Jacques C, Jani
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Prenatal diagnosis. 36(1)
ISSN: 1097-0223
Popis: The aim of this study was to describe whether the prophylactic use of a cervical pessary decreases the rate of premature birth in congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) fetuses treated with fetoscopic tracheal occlusion (FETO).The study concerns a consecutive series of cases with CDH and FETO and a group of CDH without FETO. In a subgroup of the FETO group, a prophylactic cervical pessary was inserted the day following the procedure. Gestational age (GA) at birth was the primary outcome.Fifty-nine fetuses with FETO and 47 expectantly managed were included. The last 15 FETO had a cervical pessary inserted. The median GA at delivery in the FETO group with pessary was 35.1 weeks and was not different from that in the FETO group without a pessary (34.3 weeks; p = 0.28) but was below that in the expectantly managed group (38.3 weeks; p 0.001).Early results suggest that prophylactic use of an Arabin cervical pessary does not prolong gestation of CDH fetuses treated with FETO. © 2015 John WileySons, Ltd.
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