Alessandra Familiari, Asma Khalil, Giuseppe Rizzo, Anthony Odibo, Patrizia Vergani, Danilo Buca, Nobuhiro Hidaka, Daniele Di Mascio, Chinedu Nwabuobi, Serena Simeone, Federico Mecacci, Silvia Visentin, Eric Cosmi, Marco Liberati, Alice D'Amico, Maria Elena Flacco, Cecilia Acuti Martellucci, Lamberto Manzoli, Luigi Nappi, Carlotta Iacovella, Franz Bahlmann, Karen Melchiorre, Giovanni Scambia, Vincenzo Berghella, Francesco D'Antonio
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the outcome of pregnancies with small baby, including both small for gestational age (SGA) and late fetal growth restriction (FGR) fetuses, undergoing induction of labor (IOL) with Dinoprostone, Misoprostol or mechanical methods. STUDY DESIGN: Medline, Embase and Cochrane databases were searched. Inclusion criteria were non-anomalous singleton pregnancies complicated by the presence of a small fetus, defined as a fetus with estimated fetal weight (EFW) or abdominal circumference (AC) <10th centile undergoing IOL from 34 weeks of gestation with vaginal Dinoprostone, vaginal misoprostol, or mechanical methods (including either Foley or Cook balloon catheters)...
September 2020: European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology