Skin preparation with either chlorhexidine-alcohol or povidone-iodine resulted in comparable rates of SSIs. Accordingly, both are suitable antiseptic agents for skin preparation before elective CS.

185 women, recruited from the Outpatient Infertility Clinic. Sample size was calculated based on the incidence of PCO in anovulatory infertile women from the literature, 11 80% of anovulatory infertility, so about 32% of all infertile women referred to our tertiary hospital per year at 99% confidence level , 5% CI, 170 patients were required. For drop out cases 200 women were included and 185 women completed follow up. This study followed the Ethical Committee rules of Obstetrics