Risk factors associated with breakdown of perineal laceration repair after vaginal birth

Abstract

Underlying infection, estimated blood loss >500 ml and operative delivery are independent risk factors for breakdown of perineal laceration repair after vaginal birth.

Keywords:

• Vaginal birth
• breakdown of perineal laceration
• operative delivery
• blood loss
• infection

Acknowledgements

The authors conducted the literature search, data analysis and review.

Ethics approval and consent to participate: The Institutional Review Board of the Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Centre approved this study (no. 2019121223090409).

Consent to publish: Not applicable.

Authors contributions

HZH and LL collected the patient data. LC and CCW analysed and interpreted the patient data and contributed to write the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Disclosure statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Data availability statement

The datasets during and/or analysed during the current study available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Additional information

Funding

The work was supported by the research grant from Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou (Grant No: 202102010174).