417434

Predicting Parameters of Cesarean Scar Indicators for Presence and Severity of Intra-abdominal Adhesions

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Last updated: 04 May 2025

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Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Abstract

Background: The most serious post-CS complication is intra-abdominal adhesions. There is no accurate method for pre-operative identification of intra-abdominal adhesion.

Aim of the present study to detect the presence of certain CS scars characteristics which might have value in predicting occurrences and degree of intra-abdominal adhesions.

Methods: this is a retrospective cohort study in which patients data were collected from patients files.

We included 150 patients with past history of Pfannenstiel incision CSs, with gestational age that was about around 36 weeks. Score values of this system is ranged from 5 - 25

Results: We showed that females with higher indices of the scar had higher rates of adhesion than others. We showed that adhesion occur more in women with a past history of 2 CSs or more (P =0.002).

We showed that the sensitivity of evaluation of the CS scar index in detecting intra-abdominal adhesions was 60%, specificity was 31%, positive and negative predictive values were 29%, and 78% respectively.

Conclusions: We concluded that patients with a higher scar index were be more liable to occurrence of more severe adhesions than patients with low score index.

DOI

10.21608/zumj.2025.355197.3812

Keywords

Cesarean Scar Indicators, Adhesions, prediction

Authors

First Name

Amr

Last Name

Abdelrahman

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

assistant professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University

Email

amr.abderham@gmail.com

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First Name

Waleed

Last Name

Etman

MiddleName

M

Affiliation

assistant professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University

Email

dr.waleed982@hotmail.com

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Orcid

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First Name

Mustafa

Last Name

Omara

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Lecturer of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University

Email

dr.mostafan1@hotmail.com

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Orcid

-

First Name

Amany

Last Name

Abdallah

MiddleName

M

Affiliation

assistant professor of Family Medicine, Egypt

Email

dramany.abdallah@gmail.com

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Orcid

-

First Name

Ola

Last Name

Harb

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

zagazig university Egypt

Email

olaharb2015@gmail.com

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Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Lashin

MiddleName

Elbakry

Affiliation

assistant professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University

Email

lashin_m@gmail.com

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-

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-

Volume

31

Article Issue

5

Related Issue

55318

Issue Date

2025-05-01

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2025-02-07

Publish Date

2025-05-01

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2,019

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2,024

Print ISSN

1110-1431

Online ISSN

2357-0717

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273

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Zagazig University Medical Journal

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https://zumj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Predicting Parameters of Cesarean Scar Indicators for Presence and Severity of Intra-abdominal Adhesions

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04 May 2025