The purpose of this study was to assess the risk of persistence of transverse lie detected earlier in pregnancy and associated predisposing factors using follow-up ultrasound (US). A longitudinal study was carried out from January 2004 to august 2004 at Federal Medical centre, Lokoja, Nigeria. All singleton pregnancies, with ultrasound diagnosis of transverse lie, between 24-28 weeks were follo...

Fourteen cases of abdominal pregnancy managed at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria, over a ten-year period (January 1994 to December 2003) were reviewed. The incidence ratio of abdominal pregnancy was one in 654 deliveries. It accounted for 4.3% of ectopic pregnancies. Age range was 20 to 43 years; 63.4% of the patients were unemployed and 50% were nullipara. Pre-operative diagno...

objective: to evaluate the plasma creatine phosphokinase (cpk) level after injection of methotrexate (mtx) as a predictor of treatment success in ectopic pregnancy (ep). materials and methods: one hundred women treated with single dose of methotrexate for ectopic pregnancy were evaluated in a prospective study, for cpk and ß-subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin (ß-hcg) levels. they received ...

ectopic pregnancy (ep) and miscarriage are important differential diagnosis of first trimester vaginal bleeding. in first trimester, serum progesterone value can be 5-20 ng/ml in ep and miscarriage. since delay in diagnosis of ep could have high mortality and morbidity, the aim of this study was comparison of serum progesterone value in ep and miscarriage in order to differentiate these conditi...

background: bilateral ectopic pregnancy is a rare condition and is divided in two subgroups, primary and secondary, based on history of assisted reproductive technology. case presentation: a 30 year old primigravid woman with history of infertility and ovulation induction presented to a hospital in kashan in year 2013. she had vaginal bleeding, abdominal pain and ultrasound findings suggested e...

background: ectopic pregnancy is one of the pathologic entities that it destroys the fallopian tube and impairs the future pregnancy. there are different medical and surgical therapies in order the treatment and reserve of fertility. the aim of this report is discuss a case of successful intrauterine after management of ectopic pregnancy with local injection of kcl in an infertile pcod patient....

background: ovarian pregnancy constitutes 0.15-3% of all ectopic pregnancies. the incidence of ectopic pregnancy is on the rise owing to evolution in assisted reproductive techniques (art). the incidence reported following in vitro fertilization (ivf) or embryo transfer (et) is 0.27% per clinical pregnancy. case: we present a case of a 13-weeks ovarian pregnancy following ivf-et and through a r...

background: cervical pregnancy is rare and dangerous form of ectopic pregnancy which can be treated surgically or conservatively. methotrexate is reasonable conservative option with high efficiency and acceptable level of side effects. aim of this paper is to present possible treatment option in case of methotrexate failure, still keeping the postulates of minimal invasive surgery. case:  we de...

The prevalence of smoking during pregnancy varies markedly across countries. In many industrialized countries, prevalence rates appear to have peaked and begun to decline, whereas in other countries smoking is becoming increasingly common among young women. Randomized controlled trials have shown that smoking interventions during pregnancy have had limited success. Smoking during pregnancy is i...