EXAMINING THE INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS OF WOMEN HAVING ELECTIVE CESAREAN SECTION.

Timing of Elective Cesarean Section

243 Received February 5, 2014; revised and accepted July 2, 2014. Published online July 3

Reasons for Elective Cesarean Section in Iranian Women

Copyright © 2014, Kashan University of Medical Sciences. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited. Cesarean delivery (CD) is a lif...

Planned elective cesarean section: a reasonable choice for some women?

Trial of labor versus elective repeat cesarean section for the women with a previous cesarean section: a decision analysis

In order to reduce the cesarean-delivery rate, more and more pregnant women are offered trials of labor (TOL) after their previous cesarean sections. TOL and elective repeat cesarean section (ERCS) have different risks and benefits. We constructed a decision analysis to explore this issue. Probabilities were derived from literature reviews. Health state utilities were derived from the authors' ...

Morphology of the cesarean section scar in the non-pregnant uterus after one elective cesarean section.

OBJECTIVES A growing number of studies suggest that the incomplete healing of the CS scar in the uterus increase the risk of uterine dehiscence or rupture during subsequent pregnancies. Thus, the factors that affect wound healing should be evaluated. We aimed to determine whether the morphology of the CS scar in non-pregnant women after one elective CS was affected by the site of the uterine in...