Therapeutic Abortion by Intra-amniotic Injection of Prostaglandins

Therapeutic abortion by intra-amniotic injection of prostaglandins.

Intra-amniotic injection of either prostaglandin F(2)alpha or prostaglandin E(2) was used in an attempt to induce therapeutic abortion in mid-pregnancy in 27 patients. Termination of pregnancy was successful in 11 out of 13 cases when prostaglandin E(2) alone was used, but in only 6 out of 14 cases when prostaglandin F(2)alpha was used. A further eight patients aborted after additional intraven...

Induction of therapeutic abortion by intra-amniotic injection of urea.

A new method of mid-trimester termination of pregnancy is described in which intra-amniotic urea was used. The mean interval between intra-amniotic injection and abortion was 59 hours and the mean length of hospital stay six days; the feto-maternal haemorrhage incidence was one out of 10 cases, which compares favourably with other methods. No complications have yet been encountered.

Induction of labour by intra-amniotic injection of hypertonic glucose.

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Association of brain damage with therapeutic abortion induced by amniotic-fluid replacement: report of two cases.

Termination of midtrimester pregnancies by intra-amniotic injection of hypertonic saline.

Amniocentesis and intra-amniotic injection of hypertonic saline to terminate pregnancy in the second trimester has at~ tained great importance in recent [Years. That such a method was not accepted or currently used in leading obstetric institutiolll3 can be easily demonstrated. In Scandinavia, where an average of 3,354 pregnancies were legally terminated annually from 1955 to 1965, abdominal by...