The purpose of this study was to investigate the change in uterine artery blood
flow in cases of intrauterine balloon tamponade (IBT). This was a retrospective
cross-sectional study of 132 patients who underwent singleton cesarean section.
IBT was performed in 35 of the 132 patients. There were 21 cases of placental
mediated pregnancy complications (PMPC), which were not included in the IBT
group. Placental positional abnormalities were significantly more common in the
IBT group than in the control group (89% vs. 9%, P
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Change in uterine artery blood flow with intrauterine balloon tamponade
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Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Yanagido, 500-0000 Gifu City, Gifu, Japan
*Correspondence: ryuichi.shimaoka.official@gmail.com (Ryuichi Shimaoka)
Clin. Exp. Obstet. Gynecol. 2021, 48(2), 307–311;
https://doi.org/10.31083/j.ceog.2021.02.2294
Submitted: 15 September 2020 | Revised: 23 October 2020 | Accepted: 28 October 2020 | Published: 15 April 2021
Copyright: © 2021 The Authors. Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Abstract
Keywords
Balloon tamponade
Uterine artery
Doppler ultrasound
Cesarean section
Placenta previa
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