NCT04876547

Are Cesarean Section and Appendectomy in Pregnancy and Puerperium Interrelated?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 32 (actual)
• Sponsor: Amasya University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Appendicitis Acute
• Cesarean Wound Disruption With Postnatal Complication

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	appendectomy	appendectomy performance

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-01
• Primary completion: 2020-10-01
• Completion: 2020-10-01
• First posted: 2021-05-06
• Last updated: 2021-05-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)