Effect of Maternal Age and BMI on Induction of Labor Using Oral Misoprostol in Late-term Pregnancies: a Retrospective Cross-sectional Study

University of Palermo

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Induction of Labor Affected Fetus / Newborn; Pregnancy Late

Treatments: Drug: Misoprostol

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06184139

MISO-LATE_PREG

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate the effect of maternal age and body mass index (BMI) on oral misoprostol induction of labor for late-term pregnancies.

Enrollment: 104 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Late term pregnancies out of labor,
• Bishop score < 7

Exclusion criteria

• labor (defined as presence of at least three painful uterine contractions every ten minutes),
• uterine tachysystole (>5 contractions within 10 minutes for two consecutive 10-minute periods),
• hypertonic uterus,
• abnormal CTG,
• contraindications to vaginal delivery (fetal malpresentation such as breech presentation or transverse situation, fetal macrosomia, abnormally implanted placenta, active genital herpes infection, cervical cancer),
• patients with parity > 4,
• medical contraindication to misoprostol (asthma, glaucoma),
• women with previous hysterotomies.