Research Article
Prelabour Caesarean Section following IVF/ICSI in Older-Term Nulliparous Women: Too Precious to Push?
Table 2
Labour characteristics.
| | IVF and ICSI pregnancies | Spontaneous pregnancies | value | RR (95% CI) |
| | Spontaneous delivery | 969 (51.9%) | 7,996 (52.5%) | 0.65 (NS) | 0.98 (0.90–1.07) | | Instrumental delivery | 424 (22.7%) | 3,759 (24.7%) | 0.067 (NS) | 0.91 (0.82–1.01) | | Prelabour CS | 171 (9.2%) | 966 (6.3%) | <0.001 | 1.42 (1.22–1.64) | | CS in labour | 302 (16.2%) | 2,506 (16.5%) | 0.8 (NS) | 0.98 (0.87–1.10) | | Induction of labour | 661 (35.4%) | 5051 (33.2%) | 0.051 (NS) | 1.09 (1.00–1.20) |
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IVF: in vitro fertilisation, ICSI: intracytoplasmatic sperm injection, CS: caesarean section, RR: relative risk, CI: confidence interval, NS: not significant.
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