Are Cesarean Section and Appendectomy in Pregnancy and Puerperium Interrelated? (APPENDECTOMY)

Amasya University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Cesarean Wound Disruption With Postnatal Complication

Appendicitis Acute

Treatments

Procedure: appendectomy

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04876547

AmasyaU

Details and patient eligibility

About

It is not known whether appendectomy for acute appendicitis (AA) increases the Cesarean section (CS) rate and whether CS increases the likelihood of AA and appendectomy in the early puerperium. In this study, delivery type and delivery outcomes and appendectomy during pregnancy and puerperium were analyzed.

Full description

This cross-sectional retrospective study was performed on 11513 women, delivered during 2015-2020. Inclusion criteria were patients submitted to appendectomy for AA during pregnancy and the first six weeks after delivery. Evaluating parameters were age, parity, gestational week at birth, delivery type, and babies' birth weight.

Enrollment

32 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18 to 45 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: Women aged 18-45 years submitted to appendectomy for acute appendicitis during pregnancy or within the first six weeks after delivery were included.

Exclusion Criteria: Cases with missing data were excluded.