Role of Ultrasound in Detection of Urinary Tract Infections as a Cause of Abortion

Abstract

This research is designed to detect the urinary tract infection (UTI) as common cause of abortion using the ultrasound B-mode scan. At August 2016, in Alshik Mohamed Ali Fadull teaching hospital for obstetrics and gynecology in Omdurman city, republic of Sudan, the pelvic and kidneys of 100 aborted women were examined using B-mode scan, with transvaginal and convex probes for the pelvic examination, and convex porbe alone for the kidneys, andbeside that the clinical history of symptoms and signs of urinary tract infection just before the onset of abortion was taken. And the result was 95% of cases found to be have sonographic feature of cystitis, 71% have sonographic feature of pyelonephritis, 100% have symptoms and signs of urinary tract infections, 15% have sonographic feature of pelvic inflammatory disease, so with these results the UTI is considered as common cause of abortions.