The Impact of Fetal Anomalies on Contemporary Labor Patterns.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare labor patterns in pregnancies affected by fetal anomalies to low-risk singletons.

Study design

Labor data from the Consortium on Safe Labor, a multicenter retrospective study from 19 U.S. hospitals, including 98,674 low-risk singletons compared with 6,343 pregnancies with fetal anomalies were analyzed. Repeated-measures analysis constructed mean labor curves by parity, gestational age, and presence of fetal anomaly in women who reached full dilation. Interval-censored regression analysis adjusted for covariables was used to determine the median traverse times for labor progression.

Results

Labor curves for all groups indicated slower labor progress for patients with fetal anomalies. The most significant trends in median traverse times were observe

SUBMITTER: McCormick AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7539907 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature