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... evaluate expectant management in asymptomatic patients with an initial serum beta-hCG titer of <2,500 IU/l and to determine the indepen- dent ability of initial serum beta-hCG titers and trend of serum ... See full document

... alternate doses of methotrexate on the third, fifth and seventh day from presentation with interval leucovorin rescue on alternate days and then had an infraumbilical laparotomy for pelvic exploration and planned fetus ... See full document

... bleeding. Expectant management may be possible, acknowledging the risk of rupture and hemorrhage, but awaiting the possible natural resolution of the ...indicated when β-hCG levels are lower than ... See full document

... Extra-uterine pregnancy or Ectopic Pregnancy (EP) is a major health problem for pregnant women, presenting as a potentially life-threatening emergency in the first trimester ...EP: expectant ... See full document

... for expectant management and we did surgery for 2 and intravenous methotrxate for the other ...medical management. Medical management was preferred for patients who are not willing for surgery ... See full document

... Methods/Design: A multicentre randomised controlled trial in The Netherlands. Hemodynamically stable patients with an EP visible on transvaginal ultrasound and a plateauing serum hCG concentration < 1,500 IU/L or with ... See full document

... factors, management, and outcomes of suspected ectopic pregnancy ...factors, management, complications and outcomes were based on studies of hospital ...levels, management, ... See full document

... A previous RCT of systemic methotrexate vs. salpin- gostomy, employing similar selection criteria as our study, found a median follow up for the medical treat- ment arm of 19 days [9]. Another more recent study assessed ... See full document

... laparoscopic management and 3 patients ...tubal pregnancy ,as early as 6-7 weeks postmenstrual by screening of all suspected pregnancies may be the key for optimal use of medical ...EP.Medical ... See full document

... of ectopic pregnancy managed by the adapted RCOG’s Guide at Izmir Katip Celebi University Ataturk Training and Re- search Hospital, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology between ...topic pregnancy ... See full document

... IU/l. Expectant management was applied to 15% of patients, but only ...with expectant management, had to be converted to methotrexate group due to increasing trend of ...for expectant ... See full document

... Hall DR et al 14 at 2000 did a 5 year prospective study to evaluate the perinatal outcome of early onset, severe preeclampsia in 340 patients. Clinical and biochemical monitoring of maternal status with careful blood ... See full document

... and expectant management in case of preterm prelabour rupture of membranes in terms of neonatal sepsis and RDS, maternal health, health-related quality-of-life and ...or expectant management ... See full document

... of ectopic pregnancy is possible by the use of sensitive assays for hCG levels and advanced ultrasound devices providing high definition images, which might result in medical treatment of most ... See full document

... the ectopic site, which controlled the ...cornual ectopic pregnancy ...Medical management with intramuscular methotrexate adopting strict criteria for medical management of ... See full document

... More than a third of the term PROM referrals in this study were from the public hospitals. Lack of obstet- ric bed and unavailability of senior doctors were the two major reasons cited for referring the PROM cases from ... See full document

... Four women consented for medical management, wherein two had treatment failure and underwent surgery. Methotrexate was successful in 4.44% of cases. Surgery was the cardinal treatment modality (95.5%, n=43).Thirty ... See full document

... Pregnancy induced hypertension and preeclampsia are common complications of pregnancy [1]. In many cases, the clinical presentation is mild, consisting only of mild hypertension and/or mild proteinuria at ... See full document

... with expectant management for term prelabour rupture of membranes and for post-term pregnancies, a policy of induction did not increase the Caesarean section rate ...versus expectant ... See full document

... for ectopic pregnancy, accounting for ...the management in all tubal pregnancy while two cases were unruptured and had salpingostomy and another case was abdominal pregnancy and had ... See full document