Diagnosis of abortion using ultrasound

Abstract

This descriptive study was conducted to assess the complications and incidence of abortion using U/S in Almangil city .

And also to show the role of ultrasound in the diagnosis of various types of abortion, specially in the first three months of the pregnancy (first trimester) by knowing the gestational sac and its position within the uterus .

980 pregnant women were scanned in Elmanagil teaching hospital during the period from January to December 2008. A 100 pregnant women of the all scanned women suffering from abortion , the incidence was 10.2%. these 100 women their data was collected and analyzed ( see chapter 4 ) .

All the patients were scanned by transabdominal ultrasongraphy

The patients age group was found to be between 14 – 42 years .

The study found 87% of the study group had symptoms , and 13% of the study group discovered to have missed abortion on routine antenatal following scanning with out any symptoms of abortion and this demonstrate the value of early antenatal ultrasound scan .

The main symptoms of the study group was found to be vaginal bleeding 78% .

The study clearly confirm the event of abortion by the absent of cardiac activity and the state of the gestational sac .

The study concluded that there is a slight link between abortion and the kind of work (20%) and denied any correlation between abortion and the kind of the tribes ( researcher predicted the existence of violence against the women in some tribes ). this result associated with place and time of search

Also the study concluded that the ultrasonography is the most sensitive , specific , practical , cost effective and useful imaging technique for confirmation of abortion and classifying its different types .

The study recommended an organizing intensive maternal care and awareness should be applied in Almanagil, also routine use of ultrasound scanning in early pregnancy , and also recommended the provision of ultrasound devices in hospitals and rural health centers , and train technicians for help in early detection of abortion .