present status of first trimester threatened abortion scan: a prospective study

ABSTRACT

Transabdominal ultrasonography was carried out on thirty pregnant patients in the first trimester to evaluate the pregnancy outcome. Twenty out of the thirty patients [group A] were complaining from symptoms and signs of first trimester abortion. The remaining ten patients had normal first trimester pregnancy as controls [group B]. The ultrasonographic evaluation for these patients was based on some characterstic and specific ultrasonographic criteria; namely, a large gestational sac without embryo [blighted ovum or anembryonic pregnancy], absent fetal heart motion and fetal movements, distored gestational sac shape, presence of retrochorionic hemorrhage and low position of the gestational sac in the juxta cervical region of the uterine cavity. The results were evaluated, as regard the reclinical liability of the previous ultrasonographic criteria with the subsequent clinical outcome: