hen a woman of childbearing age presents to a physician or other caregiver complaining of vaginal bleeding and/or pelvic pain, a pelvic ultrasound examination is often performed to assess the etiology of her symptoms.1,2 If she has a positive pregnancy test, the major role of ultrasound is to assess whether she has a normal intrauterine pregnancy (IUP), an abnormal IUP, or an ectopic pregnancy....

Every year numerous females are detected infertile as infertility becomes a major problem in reproductive lives, worldwide. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness intrauterine infusion autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) women undergoing frozen embryo transfer cycles with suboptimal endometrium. A total 61 between 22 40 years age were included study. Based on hysteroscopy ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical impact of fetal echocardiography before 16 weeks' gestation on the management of pregnancies with fetuses at risk of congenital heart disease. DESIGN AND SETTING Observational study in a fetal medicine unit. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS 222 consecutive women with high risk pregnancies (230 fetuses) underwent transabdominal fetal echocardiography at a median ge...

Objective: To evaluate the clinical impact of fetal echocardiography before 16 weeks’ gestation on the management of pregnancies with fetuses at risk of congenital heart disease. Design and setting: Observational study in a fetal medicine unit. Participants and methods: 222 consecutive women with high risk pregnancies (230 fetuses) underwent transabdominal fetal echocardiography at a median ges...

Fertility after ectopic pregnancy (EP) was investigated in a non-selected population taking into account intrauterine device (IUD) use at the time of the EP. Between January 1992 and June 1996, 647 women listed in the EP register of Auvergne (France) were followed up. The analysis included only the 328 women who were seeking to become pregnant: 23 women using IUD at the time of the index EP (IU...

Angiopoietin-1 and -2 are endogenous ligands for the vascular endothelium-specific receptor tyrosine kinase Tie-2. The angiopoietin/Tie system plays a critical role in the regulation of endothelial cell survival and vascular maturation and stability. Apart from its well-established role in vascular morphogenesis, emerging data support the involvement of angiopoietins in inflammation and various...

Gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) is a condition that develops from abnormal proliferation of placental trophoblasts. A rare division GTD partial mole with co-existing live fetus-a also referred to as “sad fetus syndrome” We report case 24-year-old, primigravida 26 weeks gestational age single intrauterine gestation coexisting molar pregnancy who had spontaneous preterm delivery at 27 wee...

Heterotopic pregnancy is defined as a uterine pregnancy in conjunction with an extrauterine pregnancy. Cervical heterotopic pregnancy represents a rare type of ectopic pregnancy, reported to be less than 0.1% of all pregnancies. We present the case of a rare event of a simultaneous intrauterine gestation combined with cervical heterotopic pregnancy in a natural conception cycle. A 32 year old p...

Pak J Med Sci 2015 Vol. 31 No. 3 www.pjms.com.pk 745 We read with great interest the article “Can mean platelet volume and platelet distrubition width be possible markers for ectopic pregnancy and tubal rupture?” by Ulkumen et al. in Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences.1 We appreciate the authors for their study. We wanted to contribute to this study as it was related to our article: “The effi...

Heterotopic pregnancy refers to the presence of simultaneous pregnancies at two different implantation sites. Heterotopic pregnancy is rare, estimated to occur in 1 per 30,000 pregnancies. We report a case of a 27-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with the diagnosis of ruptured ectopic pregnancy. Careful ultrasound assessment indicated the diagnosis of heterotopic pregnancy. ...