BACKGROUND Increasing gestational age is associated with an increased risk of complications in studies assessing surgical termination of pregnancy (TOP). Medical TOP is widely used during the second trimester and little is known about the frequency of complications. This epidemiological study was undertaken to assess the frequency of adverse events following the second trimester medical TOP and...

OBJECTIVE Our purpose was to determine whether intracervical placement of laminaria stalks would improve the effectiveness of inducing termination of pregnancies in the second trimester by intra-amniotic injection of prostaglandin F(2)alpha. STUDY DESIGN This is a prospective randomized clinical trial conducted at Gynecology Department, Lis Maternity Hospital. Fifty women admitted for indicat...

Intravaginal misoprostol, a synthetic PGE1 analogue, has largely replaced all other techniques for pregnancy termination in II trimester, because of its successful results. Incidence of II trimester pregnancy termination has also increased in the present days, because of prenatal diagnosis of pregnancies with serious fetal abnormalities like cardiovascular and skeletal malformations. But there ...

We report the echocardiographic identification of cardiac tumours in antenatal life in a pregnancy where the father was known to have tuberous sclerosis. This allowed termination of an affected pregnancy in the second trimester.

introduction since abdominal pregnancies are mostly complicated, they are usually managed by laparotomy, but laparoscopy is an alternative method which some surgeons perform instead of laparotomy; especially in advanced pregnancy. case presentation we reported a 31 year old woman with last menstrual period of 18 weeks who had supra pubic pain and vaginal bleeding. after sonographic evaluations,...