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Severe maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>We identified 864 complete uterine ruptures in 2 625 017 deliveries. Overall prevalence was 3.3 (95% <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CI<\/jats:styled-content> 3.1\u20133.5) per 10 000 deliveries, 22 (95% <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CI<\/jats:styled-content> 21\u201324) in women with and 0.6 (95% <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CI<\/jats:styled-content> 0.5\u20130.7) in women without previous <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CS<\/jats:styled-content>. Prevalence in women with previous <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CS<\/jats:styled-content> was negatively correlated with previous <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CS<\/jats:styled-content> rate (<jats:italic>\u03c1<\/jats:italic> = \u22120.917) and positively correlated with <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">TOLAC<\/jats:styled-content> rate of the background population (<jats:italic>\u03c1<\/jats:italic> = 0.600). Uterine rupture resulted in peripartum hysterectomy in 87 of 864 women (10%, 95% <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CI<\/jats:styled-content> 8\u201312%) and in a perinatal death in 116 of 874 infants (13.3%, 95% <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CI<\/jats:styled-content> 11.2\u201315.7) whose mother had uterine rupture. Overall rate of neonatal asphyxia was 28% in neonates who survived.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>Higher prevalence of complete uterine ruptures per <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">TOLAC<\/jats:styled-content> was observed in countries with low previous <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CS<\/jats:styled-content> and high <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">TOLAC<\/jats:styled-content> rates. 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