Table 1.

Cumulative results of laparoscopic cervical cerclage

Cerclage by laparoscopy: study and year	Patient no.	The time of surgery	Pregnancy no.	Intraoperative complication rate (%)	Fetal survival rate (%)	Mean GA at birth
Lesser KB et al., 1998	1	During pregnancy	1	0	100	Not reported
Mingione MJ et al., 2003	11	Before pregnancy	12	9	83	37.1
Cho CH et al., 2003	20	During pregnancy	21	0	95	36.2
Gallot D et al., 2003	3	Before pregnancy	2	0	100	38
Ghomi A et al., 2006	1	Before pregnancy	1	0	100	38.4
Aboujaoude R et al., 2007	1	During pregnancy	Not reported	0	Not reported	Not reported
Agdi M et al., 2008	1	Before pregnancy	1	0	Not reported	Not reported
Reid GD et al., 2008	3	During pregnancy	3	0	Not reported	Not reported
Liddell HS and Lo C., 2008	11	Before pregnancy	10	0	100	Not reported
Whittle WL et al., 2009	65	34 not pregnant, 31 pregnant	67	10.7	80	35.8
Fechner AJ et al., 2009	1	During pregnancy	1	0	100	37
Carter JF et al., 2009	12	7 not pregnant, 5 pregnant	12	0	75	Not reported
Pereira RM et al., 2009	1	Before pregnancy	2	0	100	38
Pawlowicz P et al., 2009	2	Before pregnancy	Not reported	0	Not reported	Not reported
Murray A et al., 2011	1	Before pregnancy	1	Not reported	100	28
DaCosta V et al., 2011	3	Before pregnancy	2	0	100	37
Riiskjaer M et al., 2012	52	Before pregnancy	45	0	83.3	37.4
El-Nashar SA et al., 2013	4	During pregnancy	4	Not reported	100	37.3
Salmeen KE and Parer JT., 2013	66	Before pregnancy	36	4.5	90	37.2
Ades A et al., 2014	64	61 not pregnant, 3 pregnant	35	1.6	95.8	35.8
Shin JE et al., 2014	1	During pregnancy	1	0	100	35
Luo L et al., 2014	19	Before pregnancy	15	0	90	36.4
Current study	101	58 not pregnant, 43 pregnant	93	0	95	36.2