cervical incompetence

However, treatment can lead to cervical incompetence and miscarriage years later.

Post-abortion cervical incompetence is also more common in the young.

At least 50% of patients with cervical incompetence have had a previous induced abortion.

Cervical incompetence is not generally treated except when it appears to threaten a pregnancy.

Most gynecologists will be on the lookout for cervical incompetence in patients who have spent years trying to get pregnant.

A diagnosis of cervical incompetence is usually made on the basis of a woman's past pregnancy history.

Risk factors for premature birth or stillbirth due to cervical incompetence include:

"Women who have had this procedure have had problems with cervical incompetence afterward," he added.

Suction curettage to complete the miscarriage is not associated with increased risk of cervical incompetence.

Cervical incompetence may cause miscarriage or preterm birth during the second and third trimesters.

Cervical cerclage, used for the treatment of cervical incompetence or insufficiency.

If left untreated, miscarriages due to cervical incompetence tend to occur earlier and earlier (though never before about 14 weeks).

If there is real evidence of cervical incompetence then a protective stitch placed in the cervix is essential treatment.

However, short cervical length has actually been shown to be a marker of preterm birth rather than cervical incompetence.

Such cervical incompetence leads to premature pregnancy loss resulting in miscarriages or preterm deliveries.

Cervical incompetence is variably defined.

Occasionally a boundary gives way (see cervical incompetence on WebPage 8) and, to both sides' dismay, the project falls apart.

In a woman with cervical incompetence, dilation and effacement of the cervix may occur without pain or uterine contractions.

Cervical incompetence is a condition in which shortening of the cervix due to dilation and thinning occurs, before term pregnancy.

Cervical incompetence might be more common among infertility patients because of the number of procedures they've had done through the cervix that could have weakened it.

Cervical incompetence occurs because of weakness of the cervix, which is made to open by the growing pressure in the uterus as pregnancy progresses.

In the second trimester, cervical incompetence, if detected in time, can be managed by placing a suture in the cervix.

Up to 15% of pregnancy losses in the second trimester may be due to uterine malformation, growths in the uterus (fibroids), or Cervical incompetence.

If there is a history of miscarriage or if you are suffering from any condition such as cervical incompetence, which threatens the pregnancy then intercourse may have to be avoided.