SynthesisFacts, views & vision in ObGyn2019
Evidence-Based Guideline on Laparoscopy in Pregnancy: Commissioned by the British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (BSGE) Endorsed by the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (RCOG).
Synthesis in Facts, views & vision in ObGyn, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 46 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
46 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 81 citations in OpenAlex.
- Antibiotic versus surgery in the treatment of acute appendicitis in the pregnant population: A systematic review and meta-analysis.F1000Research · 2023Pooled it
- Updated Evaluation of Laparoscopic vs. Open Appendicectomy During Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in surgery · 2021Pooled it
- 2020 World Society of Emergency Surgery updated guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute calculus cholecystitis.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2020Guideline
- Laparoscopic Management of Ovarian Torsion in the Third Trimester of Pregnancy: A Case Report and Literature Review.Clinical case reports · 2026Article
- An international multidisciplinary consensus statement on laparoscopic liver biopsy.Cell reports. Medicine · 2026Article
- Acute Cholecystitis in Pregnancy: A Review of Incidence, Risk Factors, Diagnostic Challenges, Management, and Maternal-Fetal Outcomes.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
- Surgical outcomes of laparoscopic and open appendectomy in pregnant patients: A single-center retrospective cohort study.Turkish journal of surgery · 2026Article
- Single-port laparoscopic surgery versus laparotomy for treatment of ovarian cysts ≥ 5 cm in the first and early second trimester of pregnancy: a retrospective comparative study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Article
- Successful radical nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma in a pregnant patient: a case report and literature review.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025Article
- Transumbilical laparoendoscopic single-site surgery (TU-LESS) for gynecological diseases during pregnancy: a retrospective study from a single center.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Observational
- Case series - Laparoscopic radical nephrectomy for kidney cancer in pregnancy.Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada · 2025Article
- Concurrent Acute Appendicitis and Cholecystitis: A Systematic Literature Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Colorectal cancer in pregnancy: case discussions and real-world data as well as literature review on current knowledge.The oncologist · 2025Review
- Clinicopathological Profile and Obstetric Outcome of Pregnant Women with Persistent Adnexal Masses.Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology of India · 2025Article
- Laparoscopic Management of a 20 cm Ovarian Serous Cystadenoma at 20 Weeks of Pregnancy: A Case Report.Cureus · 2025Article
- Conservative Treatment of Third Trimester Appendicitis Misdiagnosed as Round Ligament Pain. A Case Report and Review of the Literature in a Resource-Limited Setting.International journal of women's health · 2025Article
- Management of acute appendicitis in pregnancy (MAMA): Protocol for a multicentre observational study.PloS one · 2025Article
- Transumbilical laparoendoscopic single-site surgery for pregnancy complicated with ruptured giant ovarian teratoma in the third trimester: case report.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- A simplified pre-conceptional laparoscopic cervical cerclage for cervical insufficiency: a retrospective study from a single center.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Observational
- Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Under Combined Spinal and Epidural Anesthesia in the First Trimester of Pregnancy-Case Report and Literature Review.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
29 authors at 20 institutions in 3 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Laparoscopy is widely utilised to diagnose and treat acute and chronic, gynaecological and general surgical conditions. It has only been in recent years that laparoscopy has become an acceptable surgical alternative to open surgery in pregnancy. To date there is little clinical guidance pertaining to laparoscopic surgery in pregnancy. This is why the BSGE commissioned this guideline. MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL and the Cochrane library were searched up to February 2017 and evidence was collated and graded following the NICE-approved process. The conditions included in this guideline are laparoscopic management of acute appendicitis, acute gall bladder disease and symptomatic benign adnexal tumours in pregnancy. The intended audience for this guideline is obstetricians and gynaecologists in secondary and tertiary care, general surgeons and anaesthetists. However, only laparoscopists who have adequate laparoscopic skills and who perform complex laparoscopic surgery regularly should undertake laparoscopy in pregnant women, since much of the evidence stems from specialised centres.
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