title: Pregnancy and its outcome in women with malformed uterus.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the clinical characteristics of fertility and pregnancy in women with congenital uterine malformations and explore optimal treatments to improve the prognosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective study was conducted on the fertility and obstetric outcome in 153 patients with uterine malformations treated in our hospital from January 1984 to December 1998. Twenty-seven cases with other kinds of genital and/or urinary anomalies but with normal uterus during the same period were enrolled as the control group.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The infertility rate was 26.6% (34/128), the miscarriage rate 44.3% (86/194), premature birth rate 9.3% (18/194), abnormal fetal presentation rate 28.4% (29/102), the cesarean section rate 61.8% (63/102), and the perinatal mortality rate 11.8% (12/102).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Women with congenital uterine malformation usually have higher incidence of infertility and complications during pregnancy and delivery. Bicornuate and septate uterus can be associated with poor obstetric outcome.
authors.affiliation: Peking Union Medical College Hospital, CAMS & PUMC, Beijing 100730.
authors.forename: Ma
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shuiqing
authors.forename: Bian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Xuming
authors.forename: Lang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jinghe
mesh_terms: D000022:Abortion, Spontaneous / Q000209:etiology; D000328:Adult; D002585:Cesarean Section / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility; D006801:Humans; D007752:Obstetric Labor, Premature / Q000209:etiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014599:Uterus / Q000002:abnormalities*