References | Cerclage suture type to prevent pregnancy loss in women requiring a vaginal cervical cerclage: the C-STICH RCT

Cerclage suture type to prevent pregnancy loss in women requiring a vaginal cervical cerclage: the C-STICH RCT · References

References

CC BY 4.0 · National Institute for Health and Care Research · approximately 3 min read

Preterm birth: what can be done? Lancet 2008;371(9606):2.
Office for National Statistics. Birth characteristics in England and Wales: 2014. Newport: Office for National Statistics; 2015.
Berghella V. Every 30 seconds a baby dies of preterm birth. What are you doing about it? Am J Obstet Gynecol 2010;203(5):416–7.21055509
Romero R, Dey SK, Fisher SJ. Preterm labor: one syndrome, many causes. Science 2014;345(6198):760–5.25124429
Phillips C, Velji Z, Hanly C, Metcalfe A. Risk of recurrent spontaneous preterm birth: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open 2017;7(6):e015402.
Owen J, Hankins G, Iams JD, Berghella V, Sheffield JS, Perez-Delboy A, et al. Multicenter randomized trial of cerclage for preterm birth prevention in high-risk women with shortened midtrimester cervical length. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2009;201(4):375.e1–8.
Kyrgiou M, Athanasiou A, Kalliala IEJ, Paraskevaidi M, Mitra A, Martin-Hirsch PP, et al. Obstetric outcomes after conservative treatment for cervical intraepithelial lesions and early invasive disease. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2017;11:CD012847.
Final report of the Medical Research Council/Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists multicentre randomised trial of cervical cerclage. MRC/RCOG Working Party on Cervical Cerclage. Br J Obstet Gynaecol 1993;100(6):516–23.8334085
Alfirevic Z, Stampalija T, Roberts D, Jorgensen AL. Cervical stitch (cerclage) for preventing preterm birth in singleton pregnancy. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2012;18(4):CD008991.
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Prevention of Preterm Birth. London: NICE; 2015.
Alfirevic Z, Stampalija T, Medley N. Cervical stitch (cerclage) for preventing preterm birth in singleton pregnancy. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2017;6(6):CD008991.
Berghella V, Ludmir J, Simonazzi G, Owen J. Transvaginal cervical cerclage: evidence for perioperative management strategies. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2013;209(3):181–92.23416155
Durdey P, Bucknall TE. Assessment of sutures for use in colonic surgery: an experimental study. J R Soc Med 1984;77(6):472–7.6429330
Kindinger LM, MacIntyre DA, Lee YS, Marchesi JR, Smith A, McDonald JA, et al. Relationship between vaginal microbial dysbiosis, inflammation, and pregnancy outcomes in cervical cerclage. Sci Transl Med 2016;8(350):350ra102.
Israfil-Bayli F, Toozs-Hobson P, Lees C, Slack M, Ismail KMK. Pregnancy outcome after elective cervical cerclage in relation to type of suture material used. Med Hypotheses 2013;81(1):119–21.23628105
Israfil-Bayli F, Toozs-Hobson P, Lees C, Slack M, Ismail K. Cerclage outcome by the type of suture material (COTS): study protocol for a pilot and feasibility randomised controlled trial. Trials 2014;15:415.25348257
Israfil-Bayli F, Toozs-Hobson P, Lees C, Slack M, Daniels J, Vince A, Ismail KMK. Cervical cerclage and type of suture material: a survey of UK consultants’ practice. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 2014;27(15):1584–8.24283438
Israfil-Bayli F, Morton VH, Hewitt CA, Ewer AK, Gray J, Norman J, et al. C-STICH: cerclage suture type for an insufficient cervix and its effect on health outcomes – a multicentre randomised controlled trial. Trials 2021;22(1):664.34583760
van ‘t Hooft J, Duffy JM, Daly M, Williamson PR, Meher S, Thom E, et al. A core outcome set for evaluation of interventions to prevent preterm birth. Obstet Gynecol 2016;127(1):49–58.26646133
Peto R, Pike MC, Armitage P, Breslow NE, Cox DR, Howard SV, et al. Design and analysis of randomized clinical trials requiring prolonged observation of each patient. II. Analysis and examples. Br J Cancer 1977;35(1):1–39.831755
DAMOCLES Study Group, NHS Health Technology Assessment Programme. A proposed charter for clinical trial data monitoring committees: helping them to do their job well. Lancet 2005;365(9460):711–22.15721478
Hodgetts Morton V, Toozs-Hobson P, Moakes CA, Middleton L, Daniels J, Simpson NAB, et al. Monofilament suture versus braided suture thread to improve pregnancy outcomes after vaginal cervical cerclage (C-STICH): a pragmatic randomised, controlled, phase 3, superiority trial. Lancet 2022;400(10361):1426–36.36273481
Beck C, Gallagher K, Taylor LA, Goldstein JA, Mithal LB, Gernand AD. Chorioamnionitis and risk for maternal and neonatal sepsis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Obstet Gynecol 2021;137(6):1007–22.33957655

Attribution. Victoria Hodgetts Morton; Catherine A Moakes; Jane Daniels; Lee Middleton; Andrew Shennan; Peter Brocklehurst et al. (2024). Cerclage suture type to prevent pregnancy loss in women requiring a vaginal cervical cerclage: the C-STICH RCT. National Institute for Health and Care Research. Copyright © 2024 Hodgetts Morton et al. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. NCBI Bookshelf NBK606679. CC BY 4.0. Original source ↗. Text reproduced from the Bookshelf XML without changing wording; figures, images and supplements are not reproduced.