Disease relevance of Abortion, Incomplete

• The sensitivity and specificity of a single serum progesterone measurement was compared against two beta-human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) measurements 48 h apart in screening for abnormal pregnancy, i.e. ectopic pregnancy, completed or incomplete abortion [1].
• The side effects (vomiting, diarrhea, fever) and the complications (incomplete abortion, uterine rupture, oxytocin augmentation) occurred more frequently with the use of PGE2 as a vaginal suppository [2].
• OBJECTIVE: To determine whether prophylactic doxycycline at suction curettage for incomplete abortion decreases the rate of postoperative pelvic infection [3].

High impact information on Abortion, Incomplete

• The number of incomplete abortions induced by misoprostol increased substantially during the first half of 1990, and declined thereafter [4].
• Hematoxylin and eosin-stained sections of the curettings, which were from 50 consecutive patients in whom incomplete abortion had been diagnosed clinically, were circulated to four pathologists who graded their diagnoses with a confidence score [5].
• Three subjects presented with persistent bleeding and an incomplete abortion from 27 to 35 days after taking mifepristone and required surgical intervention [6].
• A randomized trial of prophylactic doxycycline for curettage in incomplete abortion [3].
• When manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) was introduced to treat incomplete abortion at a regional training hospital in El Salvador, this study evaluated the impact of replacing sharp curettage with MVA [7].

Chemical compound and disease context of Abortion, Incomplete

• Although the cumulative abortion rates of PGF2alpha-treated patients with paracervical blocks and saline-treated patients were similar, the rate of incomplete abortion for the PGF2alpha-treated patients was significantly lower [8].
• The number of complete and incomplete abortions, ease of passage through the cervical canal, as measured by a tonometer before and 8 hours after the administration of prostaglandin, the degree of pain experienced and the quantity of analgesics required, plus the frequency of systemic side effects were all always assessed by one trialist [9].
• In the tamoxifen group, nine of 98 women had incomplete abortions with symptoms requiring a surgical aspiration, compared to one of 100 women in the methotrexate group [10].
• In incomplete abortion 18 of 21 E2 values were below the lower 95% confidence limit [11].
• A randomised controlled trial involving 140 non-septic incomplete abortions was performed to determine the efficacy of prophylactic tetracycline as practiced in these cases in Harare Central Hospital. The treatment group (62) received tetracycline (500 mg four times daily) for a week [12].

Biological context of Abortion, Incomplete

• Although mifepristone will induce bleeding in the majority of women in early pregnancy, the incidence of incomplete abortion or ongoing pregnancies increases with increasing gestational age and is too high to be clinically useful as an agent for therapeutic abortion [13].

Gene context of Abortion, Incomplete

• The anticipated short-term outcome of this study was increased awareness among African health officials about the problem of incomplete abortion in SSA, especially CRHCS/ECSA countries [14].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Abortion, Incomplete

• A randomized trial of misoprostol compared with manual vacuum aspiration for incomplete abortion [15].
• Human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) concentrations were measured in the serum of 40 patients with normal pregnancy, 18 with ectopic pregnancy, 36 with incomplete abortions and 24 patients with gestational trophoblastic disease using a radio-immunoassay (RIA) and immunoradiometric assay (IRMA) [16].

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