Intramural ectopic pregnancy: a case report A rare condition of ectopic pregnancy, with potential severe consequences if not diagnosed and treated early, is the intramural one. Here, we report the case of a woman with intramural pregnancy. The first suspicion of the presence of such a condition emerged while doing a transvaginal sonography, after which it was decided to excise the mass in order...

AIM To determine the applicability of pocket ultrasound as a complementary method for clinical evaluation during the first trimester of pregnancy. MATERIAL AND METHODS A prospective cross-sectional study was conducted with 86 pregnant women attended in an emergency. The same operator performed the first examination with pocket device Vscan (General Electric, Vingmed Ultrasound, Horten, Norway...

Missed abortion in the first trimester is characterized by the arrest of embryonic or fetal development. The cervix is closed and there is no or only slight bleeding. Ultrasound examination shows an empty gestational sac or an embryo/fetus without cardiac activity. Based on a review of the published literature a single dose of 800 microg vaginal misoprostol may be offered as an effective, safe,...

Public concerns regarding the misdiagnosis of miscarriage 1 have identified a serious weakness in the provision of quality care to women in early pregnancy. The implementation of a clinical initiative to standardise care during early pregnancy 2 is a welcome response to these tragic outcomes. While all imaging modalities have technical limitations, the current controversy over the erroneous dia...

A 41-year-old Saudi woman, gravida 7, para 5, aborta 1 with sickle cell disease at week 12 of gestation of diamniotic dichorionic twin pregnancy was admitted with fever. Blood cultures grew Listeria monocytogenes. She was treated with intravenous ampicillin and had death of one of the fetuses after 10 days. An ultrasound at 19 weeks of gestation showed a normal intrauterine gestation and the pr...

Ascertaining pregnancy location is the key determinant for streamlining management for patients presenting with abdominal pain or bleeding in early pregnancy. However sometimes in spite of all efforts finding the location of gestation sac is difficult and such cases have been classified categorised as Pregnancy of Unknown Location (PUL). The lack of well accepted consensus for diagnostic criter...

Congenital abnormalities impact 3% to 5% of allpregnancies, and they are the leading cause newborndeath. The majority caused by unknown factors, withpregnancy being sole risk factor. However, in bothaffluent developing nations, responsible forrising newborn fatalities.Aim study: purpose this study was seewhether there a link between Gestational sac diameter,crown rump length, yolk diameter feta...

Intravesical ectopic pregnancy is a very rare condition. Unlike traditional pregnancies, patients generally present with hematuria. Our case presented abdominal pain and urinary bleeding. Abdominal tenderness was observed on physical examination. The ß-HCG measured as 10033 IU / ml. In ultrasonography, an appearance compatible vesicouterine fistula tract gestational sac in the bladder were obse...

Ascertaining pregnancy location is the key determinant for streamlining management for patients presenting with abdominal pain or bleeding in early pregnancy. However sometimes in spite of all efforts finding the location of gestation sac is difficult and such cases have been classified categorised as Pregnancy of Unknown Location (PUL). The lack of well accepted consensus for diagnostic criter...

This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of germinating soybeans under dark and light conditions on the quality characteristics of Korean soy sauce made with germinated soybeans. The germination rate of soybeans germinated under dark conditions (GSD) was higher than that of soybeans germinated under light conditions (GSL), whereas the lengths of sprouts and relative weights of GSL did n...