Operator experience reduces the risk of second trimester amniocentesis-related adverse outcomes

European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 230-233

  Margioula Siarkou, Chrysoula ^a,b   Karkanaki, Artemis ^a,b   Kalogiannidis, Ioannis ^a,b   Petousis, Stamatios ^a,b   Dagklis, Themistoklis ^a,b   Mavromatidis, George ^a   Prapas, Yannis ^a,b   Prapas, Nikos ^a,b   Rousso, David ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b IAKENTRO   (Greece)

Author keywords

Second trimester amniocentesis Adverse outcome Fetal loss rate Operator experience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID; ANTEPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FETUS WASTAGE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; OPERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; FETAL LOSS RATE; OPERATOR EXPERIENCE; SECOND TRIMESTER AMNIOCENTESIS;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING CURVE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84881477560     PISSN: 03012115     EISSN: 18727654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2013.03.027     Document Type: Article

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