Cesarean section in the second delivery to prevent anal incontinence after asymptomatic obstetrical anal sphincter injury: the EPIC multicenter randomized trial.

CONCLUSIONS: In women with asymptomatic obstetrical anal sphincter lesions diagnosed by ultrasound, planning a CS had no significant impact on anal continence 6 months after the second delivery. These results do not support advising systematic CS for this indication. PMID: 32770616 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: BJOG : An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology - August 7, 2020 Category: OBGYN Authors: Abramowitz L, Mandelbrot L, Bourgeois Moine A, Le Tohic A, de Carne Carnavalet C, Poujade O, Roy C, Tubach F Tags: BJOG Source Type: research