title: [Clinical study of induced abortion of early-early pregnancy: an analysis of 10, 404 cases].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of early-early pregnancy induced abortion (EPIA).
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 10 404 cases of EPIA performed at our hospital from January 1993 to December 2003 were retrospectively analyzed and compared with 9434 cases of common induced abortion (CIA). The amount of hemorrhage and operative duration, degree of pain, rate of induced-abortion syndrome, rate of incomplete abortion, menstrual changes and post-operative onset of Asherman's syndrome were observed and compared between 2 groups.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The average age, ratio of parous cases, ratio of the cases of first-pregnancy induced abortion were not different between 2 groups (P > 0.05). The amount of hemorrhage bleeding ((4.9 ± 3.2) ml), operative duration ((90.3 ± 12.4) s), degree of pain, rate of induced-abortion syndrome, menstrual changes and the rate of Asherman's syndrome in the EPIA group were all significantly less than those in the CIA group (P < 0.05). However, the rate of incomplete abortion (0.44%) in the EPIA group was significantly higher than that (0.21%) in the CIA group (P < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  EPIA has the advantages of lesser hemorrhage, less pain, shorter operative duration and fewer complications over CIA. Therefore the recovery of EPIA cases is earlier than that of CIA cases. While the risk of incomplete abortion stays high.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetric & Gynecology, Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Xue-fen
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jian-hua
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011261:Pregnancy Trimester, First; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D055815:Young Adult