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The aim of this study was to assess the clinical outcomes of patients with retained products of conception, comparing a primary surgical approach to conservative management. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 88 patients diagnosed with retained products of conception after 23+0 weeks of gestation at the Medical University Vienna between 2014 and 2022. Results: Forty-seven (53.4%) patients underwent primary surgical management and 41 (46.6%) primary conservative management. After primary conservative treatment, a complication could be observed in 10 (24.4%) women. In contrast, complications occurred in 32 (68.1%) women in the group with primary surgical treatment (p &lt; 0.001). The most common complication in both groups was the ongoing suspicion of retained products of conception. Patients after primary surgical treatment were significantly more likely to require a secondary change in treatment (p &lt; 0.001). Ultimately, secondary conservative management was applied in 30 (63.8%) patients. In contrast, only nine (21.95%) patients with primary conservative management required secondary surgical management. Conclusions: Due to the high risk of complications and persistent retained products of conception, primary surgical management should only be prioritized in hemodynamically instable or septic patients.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm13154439","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,29]],"date-time":"2024-07-29T16:37:17Z","timestamp":1722271037000},"page":"4439","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Evaluation of the Management and Outcome of Patients with Retained Products of Conception after Gestational Week 23+0: A Retrospective Cohort Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9281-3492","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Petra","family":"Pateisky","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Obstetrics and Feto-Maternal Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5062-0097","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fanny","family":"Mikula","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Obstetrics and Feto-Maternal Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Marija","family":"Adamovic","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Obstetrics and Feto-Maternal Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jana","family":"Neum\u00fcller","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Obstetrics and Feto-Maternal Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5684-5630","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kinga","family":"Chalubinski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Obstetrics and Feto-Maternal Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2412-1822","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Veronica","family":"Falcone","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Obstetrics and Feto-Maternal Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1236-1041","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Stephanie","family":"Springer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Obstetrics and Feto-Maternal Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"357","DOI":"10.7863\/jum.2008.27.3.357","article-title":"Occurrence and Outcome of Residual Trophoblastic Tissue","volume":"27","author":"Daemen","year":"2008","journal-title":"J. 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