M Andreoli1, M Servakov, P Meyers, W J Mann. 1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Riverside Regional Medical Center, Newport News, Virginia, USA.
Abstract
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To describe the benefits, complications, and safety of laparoscopic surgery during pregnancy. DESIGN: Retrospective case series (Canadian Task Force classification II-2). SETTING: Community academic medical center. PATIENTS: Nineteen pregnant women. INTERVENTIONS: Five (26.3%) appendectomies, seven (36.8%) ovarian cystectomies, five (26.3%) cholecystectomies, one diagnostic laparoscopy (5.3%), and one (5.3%) salpingectomy. In one woman, laparoscopy was converted to exploratory laparotomy to complete a difficult ovarian cystectomy, and a second patient required a minilaparotomy incision to remove the specimen. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: No preterm labor or adverse perinatal outcome occurred, although one woman had irregular uterine contractions that promptly resolved with tocolytics. One patient delivered at 35 weeks' gestation and the rest carried their pregnancy to term, and all delivered normal infants. No malignancy was found on histopathologic examination of specimens. Hospital stay ranged from 1 to 4 days. CONCLUSION: Laparoscopic surgery can be performed safely in pregnant women. This series adds 19 cases to the approximately 141 reported in the literature. (J Am Assoc Gynecol Laparosc 6(2):229-233, 1999)
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To describe the benefits, complications, and safety of laparoscopic surgery during pregnancy. DESIGN: Retrospective case series (Canadian Task Force classification II-2). SETTING: Community academic medical center. PATIENTS: Nineteen pregnant women. INTERVENTIONS: Five (26.3%) appendectomies, seven (36.8%) ovarian cystectomies, five (26.3%) cholecystectomies, one diagnostic laparoscopy (5.3%), and one (5.3%) salpingectomy. In one woman, laparoscopy was converted to exploratory laparotomy to complete a difficult ovarian cystectomy, and a second patient required a minilaparotomy incision to remove the specimen. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: No preterm labor or adverse perinatal outcome occurred, although one woman had irregular uterine contractions that promptly resolved with tocolytics. One patient delivered at 35 weeks' gestation and the rest carried their pregnancy to term, and all delivered normal infants. No malignancy was found on histopathologic examination of specimens. Hospital stay ranged from 1 to 4 days. CONCLUSION: Laparoscopic surgery can be performed safely in pregnant women. This series adds 19 cases to the approximately 141 reported in the literature. (J Am Assoc Gynecol Laparosc 6(2):229-233, 1999)
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