Abstract Study question Is there a relationship between the concentration of βhCG hormone in maternal blood, embryo morphokinetics and clinical outcome? Summary answer is related to trophoectoderm quality, abortion rate live birth rate, but not What known already Measurement has been widely used for early pregnancy detection after assisted reproduction treatments. Shortly implantation, trophobl...

objective: to evaluate the plasma creatine phosphokinase (cpk) level after a single injection of methotrexate (mtx) as a predictor of treatment success in ectopic pregnancy (ep). materials and methods: in this prospective study, seventy nine women older than 18 years treated with methotrexate for ectopic pregnancy were evaluated for cpk and β-subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin (βhcg) level...

Chorangiocarcinoma is an extremely rare primary placental neoplasm, with only five cases reported in the literature (Table 1). Some researchers considered it as a bona fide chorangiocarcinoma, but most cases described a chorangioma with abnormal trophoblastic proliferation. In spite of atypia in cytology, marked mitosis and tumor necrosis, chorangiocarcinoma was always reported benign. No metas...

Author for correspondence: Dr Gam Lay Harn School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Minden, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. Tel: 604-6533888 ext 2208 Fax: 604-6570017 E-mail: [email protected] Abstract As a consequence of the abused of human chorionic gonadotropin αhCG) by male athletes, a reliable detection method for βhCG is highly desired in sport testing. hCG is misused by m...

The present case study is on a 16-year-old woman who was suffering from nephrotic syndrome after recovery from complete type of hydatiform mole. She was admitted in hospital because of proteinurea and hematuria. Then she was showing a generalized edema compatible with neprhotic syndrome. In her past medical history she had a suction curettage for hydatiform mole. After she received 4 courses ch...