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First trimester sonographic characteristics of patients with recurrent spontaneous abortion
Author(s) -
Opsahl M S,
Pettit D C
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of ultrasound in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.574
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1550-9613
pISSN - 0278-4297
DOI - 10.7863/jum.1993.12.9.507
Subject(s) - medicine , abortion , gestation , first trimester , pregnancy , obstetrics , fetus , ultrasonography , second trimester , gynecology , surgery , genetics , biology
First trimester ultrasonographic evidence of FHM infers a good prognosis for normal pregnancies, although similar data in RSA is scarce. Abortion before 20 weeks' gestation occurred in 12 of 167 control patients (7.2%) and five of 23 patients with RSA (21.7%) after detection of fetal heart motion (P = 0.0382). The abortion rate decreased with a MSS‐CRL difference of > 8 mm in controls but not in patients with RSA. We conclude that the probability of pregnancy success is not improved with FHM identification in patients with RSA.