Do women with a repeat termination of pregnancy prefer a medical or a surgical regimen?. (7th January 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Worm Frandsen, Maja; Rørbye, Christina; Nilas, Lisbeth
• Is Part Of: Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica. Volume 93:Number 3(2014)
• Page Start: 308
• Page End: 311
• Publication Date: 2014-01-07
• Subjects: Gynecology -- Periodicals; Pregnancy -- Periodicals; Obstetrics -- Periodicals; 618.05
• DOI: 10.1111/aogs.12305
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0001-6349

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" id="aogs12305-abs-0001"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>We compared the risk of a repeat termination and the method of termination in women with a prior medical or surgical termination, or both, in a cohort study of women with a pregnancy termination at gestational age ≤63 days in 1999–2001. Within 5 years, 24% (330/1379) had a repeat abortion, and repeat terminations were more frequent in the surgical [27% (159/588)] than the medical group [22% (171/791)] (<italic>p </italic>&lt; 0.05). The method used at the repeat termination was medical in 49% (83/171) of women with an earlier medical termination, compared with 13% (21/159) (<italic>p</italic> &lt; 0.01) in women with an earlier surgical termination. In 125 women who had experienced both procedures, 37% (46/125) of the next terminations were performed medically and 63% (79/125) surgically (<italic>p </italic>&lt; 0.01). Women in our study with a repeat termination tended to choose the same method as used before, and more often a surgical termination<bold>.</bold></p> </abstract>