IMR Press / CEOG / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / DOI: 10.31083/j.ceog5103068
Open Access Original Research
Exploring Risk Factors for Early Pregnancy Loss: A Retrospective Hysteroscopy Study in a Single Institution
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1 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women and Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, 401147 Chongqing, China
2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chongqing Health Center for Women and Children, 401147 Chongqing, China
3 Chongqing Research Center for Prevention & Control of Maternal and Child Diseases and Public Health, 401147 Chongqing, China
4 Department of Mathematics, School of Mathematics and Physics, University College London, WC1E 6AE London, UK
5 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, 400016 Chongqing, China
6 Department of Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Chongqing Medical University, 400016 Chongqing, China
*Correspondence: zhqinou@hospital.cqmu.edu.cn (Qin Zhou)
Clin. Exp. Obstet. Gynecol. 2024, 51(3), 68; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.ceog5103068
Submitted: 15 November 2023 | Revised: 30 December 2023 | Accepted: 15 January 2024 | Published: 14 March 2024
Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Abstract

Background: To explore the risk factors for early pregnancy loss and to study the relationship between early pregnancy loss and intrauterine adhesion (IUA) confirmed by hysteroscopy. Methods: A retrospective study was conducted on 226 early pregnancy loss and 51 early pregnancy patients who received medical management combined with hysteroscopy at a regional institution from March 2020 to February 2021. The uterine cavity’s shape was evaluated by hysteroscopy 6 hours after treatment with medicine. Risk factors included maternal age, gestational weeks, gravidity, parity, number of prior early pregnancy losses, number of prior induced abortions, mean sac diameter (MSD) and IUA. Results: Our results showed that the prevalence of IUA increased significantly in early pregnancy loss cases (31.42%) compared with early pregnancy cases (9.8%) (p < 0.01). Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that maternal age (odds ratio (OR): 1.195, 95% confidence interval (95% CI): 1.077–1.326), gestational weeks (OR: 2.919, 95% CI: 2.028–4.201) and IUA (OR: 8.631, 95% CI: 2.455–30.336) were positively associated with early pregnancy loss, while MSD (OR: 0.943, 95% CI: 0.899–0.990) and parity (OR: 0.194, 95% CI: 0.088–0.428) were inversely associated with early pregnancy loss. Conclusions: Maternal age, gestational weeks and, IUA were the risk factors for early pregnancy loss. Special attention is to be given to cases of combined IUA when managing early pregnancy loss.

Keywords
early pregnancy loss
hysteroscopy
intrauterine adhesion
risk factors
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