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Placenta Accreta Spectrum Disorders: Current Recommendations from the Perspective of Antenatal Imaging

2023; Thieme Medical Publishers (Germany); Volume: 45; Issue: 06 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1055/s-0043-1770917

1806-9339

Conrado Milani Coutinho, Alexia Viegas Georg, Lígia Conceição Assef Marçal, Álbaro Jose Nieto‐Calvache, Theophilus Kofi Adu‐Bredu, Francesco D'Antonio, José M. Palacios‐Jaraquemada,

Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions

Cesarean section (CS) is the most commonly performed surgical procedure in the United States (more than a million surgeries per year) and one of the most frequently performed procedures worldwide.[1] Although CS is a potentially life-saving procedure when correctly indicated, its worldwide use has steadily increased over the last decades (currently 21.1% globally, ranging from 5% in sub-Saharan Africa to 42.8% in Latin America and the Caribbean). Moreover, it will continue increasing worldwide (2030 projection: 28.5% globally, ranging from 7.1% in sub-Saharan Africa to 63.4% in Eastern Asia).[2] Dominican Republic, Brazil, Cyprus, Egypt and Turkey are the worldwide leaders, with CS rates ranging from 58.1% to 50.8%, respectively, which points to a worrying trend towards overmedicalization of childbirth and overuse of CS.[2] Other surgical procedures such as dilation, curettage, myomectomy, and surgical hysteroscopy are less frequent than CS. Still, due to the trend towards more advanced maternal age, the number of pregnant women previously submitted to these procedures also tends to increase. These data point to a growing number of pregnancies in surgically manipulated uteruses.