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Adjunctive Use of Laminaria Tents for Termination of Early Mid‐Trimester Pregnancy with Intramuscular 15(S) ‐ 15‐ Methyl PGF 2 alpha
Author(s) -
Chowdhury N.N. Roy,
Bulusu Ratna
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
asia‐oceania journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1447-0756
pISSN - 0389-2328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1447-0756.1983.tb00618.x
Subject(s) - laminaria , abortion , medicine , pregnancy , intramuscular injection , obstetrics , gestational age , anesthesia , surgery , gynecology , biology , ecology , genetics , algae
Forty‐five patients with gestational age between 12–16 weeks treated with insertion of Laminaria tents followed 14 hours later by serial intramuscular injections of 15‐methyl PGF 2 alpha had a mean abortion time of 10.49 ± 0.94 hours and percentage effectiveness of 97.78% within 20 hours. Except for one case of cervical laceration, no other complications occurred. Tents reduce the drug‐abortion interval and improve the cumulative success rate. A close relationship between degree of difficulty at removal of the tents and the mean abortion interval was noted.