Low-dose progestogens and ectopic pregnancy.

Bridging progestogens in pregnancy and pregnancy prevention

Steroid hormones have been in use for more than a half a century as contraceptive agents, and only now are researchers elucidating the biochemical mechanisms of action and non-target effects. Progesterone and synthetic progestins, critical for women's health in the US and internationally, appear to have important effects on immune functioning and other diverse systems. Apart from the contracept...

Molar Pregnancy Presents as Tubal Ectopic Pregnancy

Ectopic Pregnancy E.P.

حاملگی نابجا به مواردی اطلاق می شود که لانه گزینی بلاستوسیت در هر مکانی خارج از حفره رحمی صورت گیرد. مکان هایی که تاکنون در آنها چنین ضایعه ای پدید آمده عبارتند از : حاملگی لوله ای، حاملگی شکمی، حاملگی گردن رحم و مکان های دیگر. هر چند که در این میان بیش از ۹۵٪ حاملگی های نابجا در لوله رحمی اتفاق می افتد، ولی حاملگی نابجا مترادف حاملگی لوله ای نیست، لکن متداولترین نوع آن می باشد.

Single-dose methotrexate for treatment of ectopic pregnancy.

Methotrexate treatment of unruptured ectopic pregnancy is safe and effective and preserves reproductive potential. Previous protocols have required multiple methotrexate doses with or without citrovorum rescue. The purpose of this study was to determine whether patients with an unruptured ectopic pregnancy 3.5 cm or less in greatest dimension could be treated with single-dose intramuscular meth...

IUDs and Ectopic Pregnancy

To the Editor: The review of Xu Xiong, Pierre Buekens and Elisabeth Wollast’ on IUD use and the risk of ectopic pregnancy is an interesting attempt to analyze disparate material covering a wide time span and global data. The two conclusions that 1) with an odds ratio of 1.06 “Current IUD use did not enhance the risk of ectopic pregnancy” among non-pregnant women and 2) with an odds ratio of 1.4...