BACKGROUND Conventionally, the pregnancy duration is accepted to be 280-282 days. Fetuses determined by ultrasound biometry to be small in early pregnancy, have an increased risk of premature birth. We speculate that the higher rate of preterm delivery in such small fetuses represents a pathological outcome not applicable to physiological pregnancies. Here we test the hypothesis that in low-ris...

heterotopic pregnancy is rare under natural circumstance (conception). we report the first case of heterotopic pregnancy in spontaneous conception with four previous caesarean sections and ruptured tubal ectopic with resultant successful normal intra-uterine pregnancy delivered at term after salpingectomy. a 32-year-old gravida 5 para 4+0 with 3 living children, with 4 previous caesarean sectio...

conclusions single dose therapy of mtx has sufficient power and efficacy in the treatment of ectopic pregnancy, however in patients with higher serum level of β-hcg, the successful treatment increases by using double dose method. using double dose also could decrease the necessity of operation, re-administration of mtx, and duration of hospitalization. results results showed that the rate of su...

Heterotopic pregnancy is rare under natural circumstance (conception). We report the first case of heterotopic pregnancy in spontaneous conception with four previous caesarean sections and ruptured tubal ectopic with resultant successful normal intra-uterine pregnancy delivered at term after salpingectomy. A 32-year-old gravida 5 para 4+0 with 3 living children, with 4 previous caesarean sectio...

OBJECTIVE To study the correlation between stimulation duration of IVF cycles, with and without GnRH agonist (GnRH-a), and cycle outcome. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of data. SETTING University-affiliated IVF clinic. PATIENT(S) 998 IVF cycles in which long GnRH-a protocol was used, and 155 cycles with hMG only. INTERVENTION(S) IVF cycles. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S) Cycle outcome in num...