Prevention of habitual abortion and prematurity by early total occlusion of the external os uteri

Abstract

Repeated late abortions and high-risk, low-chance premature births are among the problems of obstetrics and perinatal medicine still to be solved. It seems that a solution is on its way, through the early total cervix occlusion (ETCO) performed by us - a solution for at least some of these highly problematic cases. The special advantage of this measure is considered to be the avoidance of an infection ascending to the cervix and to the lower egg-pole resulting in abortion or premature birth. Early total occlusion of the os uteri has been performed on 28 women; 22 have since been delivered of healthy infants. Whereas previously from these 28 patients with a total of 99 wanted pregnancies only 14 infants (14%) survived, the rate of success after the introduction of ETCO lies at about 80% (22 out of 28). From this a high success rate can be expected in the future in these difficult cases.