Conclusion
Our analysis shows that in women with interstitial ectopic pregnancy,
management with laparoscopic surgery is associated with lower
postoperative hospital stay duration and operation time with no
difference in terms of blood loss, post and intraoperative
complications, and need for blood transfusion.
Further studies especially interventional studies with longer follow up
duration and larger sample size are needed to produce more valid results
and till that we recommend using laparoscopic surgery if available as it
has some advantages over open surgery.
Disclosure of interests: All authors deny any relevant
financial, personal, political, intellectual or religious conflicts of
interest with regards to this work.
Contribution to authorship: Greg Marchand gathered the idea and
reviewed the whole work starting from search to final writing, Ahmed
Taher Masoud performed statistical analysis and wrote the statistical
part of the results as well as reviewing the writing process, Katelyn
Sainz, Ali Azadi, and Kelly Ware searched all databases for possible
included studies and screened the retrieved results, Janelle Vallejo,
Sienna Anderson, and Alexa King performed the data extraction and risk
of bias assessment for included studies, Asya Osborn, and Stacy Ruther
wrote the introduction section, Giovanna Brazil wrote the methods
section, Kaitlynne Cieminski, and Sophia Hopewell wrote the results
section and served as the second team for screening and data extraction
of outcomes and baseline tables, Lisa Rials, and Akarshi Brar collected
and discussed our results with previous works and research papers.
Details of ethics approval: This Manuscript has been reviewed
by the institutional IRB board at Marchand Institute and was found to be
exempt from IRB review. (May 2020, IRB#05-2020-084)
Funding: All authors have no disclosures. No authors received
any funding for this review.
Conflicts of Interest : Authors declare no conflicts of
interest.