Abstract
The gold standard in the management of cervical incompetence is cerclage via vaginal approach. Minimally invasive techniques, such as robotic, have been also described. A systematic search was performed in PubMed and Scopus, searching evidence on robotic assisted laparoscopic cerclage in both pregnant and non pregnant women. Sixty-four patients were included in this study. Cervical insufficiency, failure of transvaginal cerclage, and short cervix were the most frequent indications for robotic assisted cerclage. Mean operative time was 107.3minutes. Mean estimated blood loss was 62.8mL. Four patients converted to laparotomy. No postoperative complications were reported. Pregnancy after robotic cerclage was reported in 59 patients with mean gestational age at delivery of 36.4weeks. The majority of pregnant women who underwent robotic assisted cerclage gave birth to live neonates. Till now, evidence does not show a clear advantage of robotic over laparoscopic approach, under the evaluation of the current literature. However, further comparative studies might be essential to clarify the possible role of da Vinci robot in this field; this might be quite difficult even in the near future based on the fact that only five cases per year are described in the current literature.
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