Background: A common practice used prior to induction of labor (IOL) is
cervical ripening. Currently, there is no consensus from world scientific
societies on the method of first choice. One of the most popular method is
prostaglandin PGE2 (dinoprostone) usage. It is used in different doses and
pharmaceutical forms. Methods: In our analysis we compared the
obstetrical outcome of IOL using a dinoprostone vaginal insert (DVI) with 10 mg
of dinoprostone, which released 0.3 mg/h of dinoprostone for 24 hours
(Cervidil
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Dinoprostone vaginal insert vs the Foley catheter in labor induction. Observational study
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Collegium Medicum, Jan Kochanowski University, 25-640 Kielce, Poland
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Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Provincial Combined Hospital, 25-640 Kielce, Poland
*Correspondence: jakub.mlodawski@ujk.edu.pl (Jakub Mlodawski)
Clin. Exp. Obstet. Gynecol. 2021, 48(3), 665–669;
https://doi.org/10.31083/j.ceog.2021.03.2498
Submitted: 26 January 2021 | Revised: 11 February 2021 | Accepted: 26 February 2021 | Published: 15 June 2021
Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Abstract
Keywords
Labour induction
Dinoprostone
Intracervical Foley catheter
Vaginal inserts