One hundred seventy thousand first-trimester abortions were performed in three free-standing clinics of Planned Parenthood of New York City from 1971-1987. Seventy percent of the procedures were done under local anesthesia; the remainder under intravenous methohexital. No preoperative medications or routine postoperative antibiotics were given. High-risk patients were referred to a hospital. Th...

Objective: The purpose of this analysis is to do the comparison sublingual misoprostol and manual vacuum aspiration for incomplete abortion treatment. Study Design: Randomized/Control Trial Place Duration: Department Gynecology Obstetrics Combined Military Hospital, Peshawar from January 2021 December 2021. Methods: There were 108 women with ages 18-50 years presented in study. All included had...

BACKGROUND Data of abortion incidence and trends are needed to monitor progress toward improvement of maternal health and access to family planning. To date, estimates of safe and unsafe abortion worldwide have only been made for 1995 and 2003. METHODS We used the standard WHO definition of unsafe abortions. Safe abortion estimates were based largely on official statistics and nationally repr...

Introduction: The stagnated CPR and high unmet need for contraception lead to approximately 890,000 induced abortions every year in Pakistan. A fairly recent study from Pakistan also revealed that around 40% of abortions are performed by unskilled workers in backstreet clinics. Considering these grave statistics, it should not come as surprise that unwanted pregnancies are the leading cause of ...

Vaginal bleeding during the first trimester of pregnancy is an event that can cause concern for its possible causes. Through use endovaginal ultrasound, it to obtain valuable information on causes obstetric hemorrhages occur from embryo implantation phase final stages pregnancy. In this work, findings found recurrently in pregnant patients up week 12 are exposed. 205 cases met study requirement...

This prospective study assesses the prevalence of intrauterine adhesions among women undergoing secondary removal of placental remnants after delivery, or a repeat curettage for incomplete abortions, and evaluates risk factors associated with the presence of intrauterine adhesions. In 50 women, undergoing either a secondary removal of placental remnants more than 24 h after delivery, or a repea...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Globally it is estimated that 26-53 million induced abortions occur annually. An estimated 20 million of these are unsafe especially in countries with restrictive abortion laws. Approximately 48% of all abortions worldwide were unsafe and more than 97% of these are in developing countries. Our objective was to find out complications of illegal induced abortions in a ter...

Objective. To investigate serum levels of free β-HCG, progesterone, and ischemia-modified albumin (IMA) and their combined use in the prediction of first trimester abortions. Methods. A total of 156 pregnant women between 5 and 13 weeks of gestational age were included in this study. At admission, serum levels of free β-HCG, progesterone, and IMA were noted and all cases were divided into two g...

Background Unsafe abortion is a public health problem worldwide. One way of reducing the number of unsafe procedures is to increase safe choices for pregnancy termination. In developed countries, of the 28 million pregnancies occurring every year, 36% end in abortion. In developing countries, of the 182 million pregnancies occurring every year, 20% end in abortion. Almost 80% of all abortions a...

Background: The Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1996 (Act 92 of 1996) allows abortions to be legally carried out in South Africa. It is not clear how many people are utilising this service. Mthatha is a poverty-stricken area with a high rate of illiteracy. The available infrastructure, such as roads, health facilities and communication, is poor. Method: This was a retrospective, descr...