Pregnancy outcomes following surgical repair of female genital fistula in Uganda.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Women developing genital fistula and undergoing fistula repair in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are largely of reproductive age, and fistula prevalence is highest in countries with high fertility and where social values are placed on childbearing. Optimizing women's health following female genital fistula and surgical repair requires further understanding of the risks to subsequent pregnancies and how to mitigate them, to enable women to achieve their desired family size without additional morbidity.

Objective

We sought to contribute to the postfistula repair evidence base through estimating rates of spontaneous abortion and stillbirth as well as the associated risk factors of these adverse outcomes in pregnancies following fistula repair.

Methods

We ca

SUBMITTER: Korn AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12013486 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature