Each year throughout the world, approximately 205 million women become pregnant and some 133 million of them deliver live-born infants [1]. Among the remaining 72 million pregnancies, 30 million end in stillbirth or spontaneous abortion and 42 million end in induced abortion. An estimated 22 million induced abortions occur within the national legal systems; another 20 million take place outside...

Misoprostol and mifepristone have been shown to be effective for medical abortion up to 9 weeks of gestation. When used alone, the successful complete abortion rate dropped to approximately 60%. It has been demonstrated that by adding water to misoprostol, the success rate rose to 92%. This is the first randomized study to investigate the efficacy of misoprostol and water versus misoprostol alo...

A US Republican Senator argued that the US must refuse to subsidize foreign family planning (FP) organizations that use their own funds for abortion-related activities because to support them would indirectly support abortion, since "money is fungible." The "Mexico City gag rule" advocated by Republicans would stop US-funded agencies from providing legal abortion or from engaging in a range of...

Among 1954 pregnant women who booked before the end of the 14th week of gestation the uterus was retroverted in 220 (11.2%). The incidence of bleeding in early pregnancy and spontaneous abortion was significantly higher in the retroverted group. Only three patients (1.4%) with a retroverted gravid uterus developed acute retention of urine. Patients with retroverted uteri did not have a higher i...

OBJECTIVE Neural tube defects (NTDs) are the most common congenital defects of central nervous system due to neural tube closure deficit during the third and fourth weeks of gestational age. Our study was performed to detect the incidence and risk factors of NTDs in Kashan, center of Iran. MATERIAL & METHODS This case-control study was done on all pregnancies with NTD affected neonates (n=91)...

OBJECTIVE To identify the incidence of pelvic infection after miscarriage undergoing uterine evacuation in a tertiary hospital in southern Brazil and to compare with the international literature. METHODS we reviewed electronic medical records of the Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre of all patients who underwent uterine evacuation for miscarriage between August 2008 and January 2012 were r...

Results from case-control studies suggest that induced abortion may be associated with a small increase in risk of breast cancer. While risk estimates from cohort studies have generally not observed such an association, these studies have had limited information regarding abortion and possible confounding variables. Therefore, we conducted a study among a cohort of post-menopausal women from wh...

Spontaneous abortion is the end of a pregnancy with gestational age less than 20 weeks or weighing 500 grams that occurs naturally. The Indonesian Research and Development Agency stated 4.1% maternal deaths in Indonesia were caused by spontaneous abortion, where target for reducing MMR 2021 0.22%. This incident was triggered several factors including mother. Preliminary data survey at RSU Cut M...

BACKGROUND Threatened abortion is the most common complication in the first half of pregnancy. Most of these pregnancies continue to term with or without treatment. Spontaneous abortion occurs in less than 30% of these women. Threatened abortion had been shown to be associated with increased incidence of antepartum haemorrhage, preterm labour and intra uterine growth retardation. OBJECTIVE Th...