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TRANSPLACENTAL HAEMORRHAGE DUE TO TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY
Author(s) -
Walsh J. J.,
Lewis B. V.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1970.tb03490.x
Subject(s) - hysterotomy , vacuum aspiration , medicine , transplacental , curettage , pregnancy , obstetrics , incomplete abortion , incidence (geometry) , products of conception , amniotic fluid , gynecology , surgery , fetus , abortion , family planning , research methodology , placenta , population , misoprostol , genetics , environmental health , physics , optics , biology
Summary The incidence of transplacental haemorrhage has been estimated in 200 women undergoing termination of pregnancy. Vaginal termination by curettage or vacuum aspiration carried a 25 per cent risk of transplacental haemorrhage determined by acid elution. Similarly, hysterotomy carried a 23 per cent risk. Hysterectomy or intra‐amniotic injection of glucose were less likely to cause transplacental bleeding. One rhesus negative patient showed a rapid rise in incomplete anti‐D six months after termination by curettage.