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Chronic ectopic pregnancy after clinically successful methotrexate treatment of ectopic pregnancy
Author(s) -
Dunn R.C,
Taskin O
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1016/0020-7292(95)80018-2
Subject(s) - ectopic pregnancy , medicine , methotrexate , human chorionic gonadotropin , trophoblast , obstetrics , pregnancy , gynecology , gonadotropin , fetus , surgery , placenta , hormone , genetics , biology
Persistent ectopic pregnancy, often a sequelae of conservative surgical procedures, is characterized by a residual trophoblastic activity site with rising or plateauing ß‐human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) titers after the initial treatment. Chronic ectopic pregnancy is a different entity which may be seen after expectant management of ectopic pregnancy and contains no active trophoblast with low or absent ß‐hCG titers. A rare with features of a chronic ectopic pregnancy, which followed successful methotrexate medical treatment of a persistent ectopic pregnancy, is presented.