Fertility performance and obstetric outcomes among women with previous cesarean scar pregnancy
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Ron Maymon1, Ran Svirsky, Noam Smorgick
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, 70300 Zerifin, Israel. maymonrb@bezeqint.net
Objectives:
The purpose of this study was to assess fertility performance and obstetric outcomes after treatment of cesarean scar pregnancy.
Methods:
We conducted a retrospective study in a large tertiary hospital in Israel. The study included 18 women with a diagnosis of cesarean scar pregnancy between 2000 and 2009.
Results:
The incidence of cesarean scar pregnancy among our parturient patients was 1 per 3000 for the general obstetric population and 1 per 531 among those with at least 1 cesarean delivery. Sixteen were treated primarily with methotrexate. Two were treated primarily by surgery, and 2 more were treated by surgery after failed methotrexate treatment. After cesarean scar pregnancy treatment, 7 women conceived spontaneously, and 1 conceived by in vitro fertilization-intracytoplasmic sperm injection. The remaining 10 (55%) did not wish to conceive again. Two of the women who became pregnant (25%) had recurrent cesarean scar pregnancy.
Conclusions:
This study shows encouraging results for fertility performance and obstetric outcomes after treatment of cesarean scar pregnancy. Nevertheless, the risk of recurrent cesarean scar pregnancy is not negligible.
