Vaginal Application of a Chemotherapeutic Agent Before Legal Abortion: A Way of Reducing Infectious Complication?
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
- Vol. 60 (3) , 233-235
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00016348109158123
Abstract
In an attempt to reduce the incidence of infectious complications after first trimester legal abortion 199 healthy, early pregnant women were treated with chloro-quinaldol (SterosanR vaginal jelly) during six days before their vacuum aspiration. A group of 291 women served as control. In the treatment group 18 women (9%) had a postoperative gynecological infection while this condition was found in 37 women (12.8%) in the control group. This difference is not statistically significant. The authors conclude that preoperative prophylactic treatment with Sterosan vaginal jelly does not seem to reduce postoperative infectious complications after first trimester legal abortions.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Accidents and sequelae of medical abortionsAmerican Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1973