Objective: To evaluate maternal and perinatal outcomes of removal versus retention of cervical cerclage after premature preterm rupture of membranes (pPROM). Study design: Medline, Embase and Cochrane databases were searched electronically on February 2023 utilizing combinations of the relevant medical subject heading (MeSH) terms, keywords, and word variants that were considered suitable for the topic. Either prospective or retrospective trials were considered suitable for the inclusion. The coprimary outcome of this study were pregnancy latency >7 days from pPROM and pregnancy latency >48 h from pPROM. Random effect head to-head meta-analyses were performed to directly compare each outcome, expressing the results as summary odds ratio (OR) for dichotomous outcomes and as mean difference (MD) for continuous outcomes, plus relative 95% confidence interval (CI). Quality assessment of the included studies was performed using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. Results: Six studies involving a total of 377 women (169 in the "removal" and 208 in the "retention" group) were included. The rate of pregnancy prolongation >48 h was significantly lower in the removal compared to retention group (OR 0.15, 95% CI 0.07-0.31; p < 0.0001), as well as the rate of pregnancy prolongation >7 days (OR 0.30 95% CI 0.11-0.83; p = 0.02) and pregnancy latency expressed in days (MD -2.84 days, 95% CI -5.40 to -0.29; p = 0.03). The rate of chorioamnionitis was significantly lower in the removal compared to the retention group (OR 0.57 95% CI 0.34-0.96p = 0.03) as was the rate of Apgar score < 7 at 5 min (OR 0.22 95% CI 0.08-0.56; p = 0.002). There was no difference between removal and retention groups for all the other maternal and perinatal outcomes. Conclusions: The decision whether to remove or retain cerclage in case of pPROM should balance the prematurity-related risks with that of infectious complications, thus highlighting the need for tailored management based on gestational age at occurrence of pPROM.

Removal versus retention of cervical cerclage with preterm prelabor rupture of membranes: systematic review and meta-analysis / Zullo, Fabrizo; Di Mascio, Daniele; Chauhan, Suneet P; Chrysostomou, Spyridakis; Suff, Natalie; Pecorini, Francesco; D'Ambrosio, Valentina; Sorrenti, Sara; D'Alberti, Elena; Galoppi, Paola; Muzii, Ludovico; Giancotti, Antonella; Brunelli, Roberto. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY AND REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY. - ISSN 1872-7654. - 288:(2023), pp. 83-89. [10.1016/j.ejogrb.2023.07.006]

Removal versus retention of cervical cerclage with preterm prelabor rupture of membranes: systematic review and meta-analysis

Zullo, Fabrizo;Di Mascio, Daniele
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Pecorini, Francesco;D'Ambrosio, Valentina;Sorrenti, Sara;D'Alberti, Elena;Galoppi, Paola;Muzii, Ludovico;Giancotti, Antonella;Brunelli, Roberto
2023

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate maternal and perinatal outcomes of removal versus retention of cervical cerclage after premature preterm rupture of membranes (pPROM). Study design: Medline, Embase and Cochrane databases were searched electronically on February 2023 utilizing combinations of the relevant medical subject heading (MeSH) terms, keywords, and word variants that were considered suitable for the topic. Either prospective or retrospective trials were considered suitable for the inclusion. The coprimary outcome of this study were pregnancy latency >7 days from pPROM and pregnancy latency >48 h from pPROM. Random effect head to-head meta-analyses were performed to directly compare each outcome, expressing the results as summary odds ratio (OR) for dichotomous outcomes and as mean difference (MD) for continuous outcomes, plus relative 95% confidence interval (CI). Quality assessment of the included studies was performed using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. Results: Six studies involving a total of 377 women (169 in the "removal" and 208 in the "retention" group) were included. The rate of pregnancy prolongation >48 h was significantly lower in the removal compared to retention group (OR 0.15, 95% CI 0.07-0.31; p < 0.0001), as well as the rate of pregnancy prolongation >7 days (OR 0.30 95% CI 0.11-0.83; p = 0.02) and pregnancy latency expressed in days (MD -2.84 days, 95% CI -5.40 to -0.29; p = 0.03). The rate of chorioamnionitis was significantly lower in the removal compared to the retention group (OR 0.57 95% CI 0.34-0.96p = 0.03) as was the rate of Apgar score < 7 at 5 min (OR 0.22 95% CI 0.08-0.56; p = 0.002). There was no difference between removal and retention groups for all the other maternal and perinatal outcomes. Conclusions: The decision whether to remove or retain cerclage in case of pPROM should balance the prematurity-related risks with that of infectious complications, thus highlighting the need for tailored management based on gestational age at occurrence of pPROM.
2023
cerclage; chorioamnionitis; PPROM; PROM; premature prelabor rupture of membranes; preterm birth
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Removal versus retention of cervical cerclage with preterm prelabor rupture of membranes: systematic review and meta-analysis / Zullo, Fabrizo; Di Mascio, Daniele; Chauhan, Suneet P; Chrysostomou, Spyridakis; Suff, Natalie; Pecorini, Francesco; D'Ambrosio, Valentina; Sorrenti, Sara; D'Alberti, Elena; Galoppi, Paola; Muzii, Ludovico; Giancotti, Antonella; Brunelli, Roberto. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY AND REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY. - ISSN 1872-7654. - 288:(2023), pp. 83-89. [10.1016/j.ejogrb.2023.07.006]
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