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- Title
Are complications after an induced abortion associated with reproductive failures in a subsequent pregnancy?
- Authors
Zhou, Weijin; Olsen, Jørn; Olsen, Jørn
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>We have previously shown that induced abortions result in a slightly increased risk of spontaneous abortion and preterm delivery in subsequent pregnancies. Danish records show that approximately 4% of women who undergo surgically induced abortions have complications related to the procedure. We examined whether it was women who had the short-term complications that carried an excess risk of spontaneous abortion and preterm delivery in the subsequent pregnancy.<bold>Methods: </bold>Two cohorts of women who had had an induced abortion and a subsequent pregnancy were followed. The cohort with no reported complications comprised 12,972 women, and the cohort with complications 605 women.<bold>Results: </bold>The cohort with complications did not have more spontaneous abortions or preterm births. They did, however, have a higher risk of stillbirth, mainly seen in women whose induced abortion had been complicated by an infection.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>Most of the women who had had an induced abortion with reported complications did, however, carry a subsequent pregnancy to term with no more complications than other women of similar parity and age.
- Subjects
ABORTION; PREGNANCY complications; STILLBIRTH
- Publication
Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 2003, Vol 82, Issue 2, p177
- ISSN
0001-6349
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1034/j.1600-0412.2003.00005.x