Ultrasonographic evaluation of cervical changes in habitual abortion

ABSTRACT

This study included 40 pregnant women divided into two groups Habitual abortion group which included 25 pregnant women [13 in first and 12 in the second trimester], between 8-24 weeks gestation. All were diagnosed clinically and laboratory to be cases of habitual abortion due to incompetent os, and cervical cerclage was planned for their treatment. Control group which included 15 pregnant women [8 in the first and 7 in the second trimester], they were within the same gestational age, and with normal obstetric history. Cases of both groups were submitted for ultrasonographic examination for cervical measurements. The diagnostic reliability of cervical incompetence by ultrasound is discussed