PREGNANCY RISK FOLLOWING LAPAROSCOPIC STERILIZATION IN NONGRAVID AND GRAVID WOMEN

  • 1 January 1981
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 26  (6) , 289-294
Abstract
A multicenter data set was analyzed to compare incidences of poststerilization pregnancies between women who were not pregnant and those who were pregnant at admission for laparoscopic sterilization. The 12-mo. life table poststerilization pregnancy rate was 6.0/1000 procedures for the 7696 nongravid and 32.8 for the 1703 gravid women, for a 5-fold difference. The crude pregnancy rates were consistently higher for the gravid women when data were classified by tubal occlusion technique and by patients'' sociodemographic characteristics. The difference in pregnancy rates between the 2 groups was reduced to 2.4-fold when analysis was limited to data sets from centers that admitted both groups of women and that performed sterilization by the same technique. Gravid women, especially postpartum patients, apparently carry a higher pregnancy risk following sterilization.

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