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Table 1 Participants’ clinical characteristics

From: Metroplasty increases the take-home baby rate by reducing pregnancy loss without changing the chance of conception in women with septate uterus: a retrospective, single-center, observational study

 

Abdominal metroplasty (ABM)

Transcervical metroplasty (TCM)

p value$

Total

n (%)

Median (range)

n (%)

Median (range)

n (%)

Median (range)

Total number of women (n)

17

 

10

    

Age (years)

Median (range)

 

32.5 (23–39)

 

33 (25–40)

n.s.

 

33 (13–40)

35< (n, % total)

7 (41%)

 

3 (30%)

 

n.s.

10 (37%)

 

≤ 35 (n, % total)

10 (59%)

 

7 (70%)

  

17 (63%)

 

Presenting complaint

Pregnancy loss (n)

13 (76%)

 

7 (70%)

 

n.s.

20 (74%)

 

Infertility (n)

4 (24%)

 

3 (30%)

  

7 (26%)

 

Number of previous pregnancy losses per woman, including those without an experience of pregnancy

Median (range)

 

2 (0–12)

 

1 (0–2)

< 0.05

 

1 (0–12)

Number of previous pregnancy loss per woman who had experienced ≥ 1 pregnancy loss

Median (range)

 

2 (1–12)

 

1 (1–2)

< 0.05

 

1.5 (1–12)

Uterine shape#

U2 (n, % total)

9 (53%)

 

9 (90%)

 

0.06

18 (67%)

 

U3 (n, % total)

8 (47%)

 

1 (10%)

  

9 (33%)

 

Follow-up period after surgery (months)

Median (range)

 

19 (5-103)

 

9.5 (3–37)

0.07

 

12 (3-103)

  1. n.s.: not statistically significant
  2. #Uterine shape corresponds to the 2013 ESHRE/ESGE classification of uterine anomalies [7]
  3. $The test for continuous variables was conducted using Fisher’s exact probability test and that for categorical variables was conducted using Wilcoxon’s signed-rank test