Predict risk factors that can end in abortion

• April 23, 2024

A team of British fertility experts discovered a reliable way to predict which pregnancies are most likely to end up in spontaneous abortion and believes that this could help doctors direct treatment to women who really need it.

The researchers identified five factors of greatest impact on the risk of abortion: history of its fertility, length of the fetus, extension of bleeding, the gestational age of the baby and levels of progesterone and the hormone of pregnancy human chorionic gonadotropin (GCH )

Separately, these factors did not reliably predict the risk of abortion , but when the researchers combined two of them - bleeding and GCH levels - to create a "Pregnancy Viability Index " (PVI , in its acronym in English) found that this was a reliable and consistent indicator of abortion.

The study consisted of the follow-up of 112 women with threats of abortion who were pregnant between six and 10 weeks. During the 5 weeks of the study, the women underwent ultrasound scans, weekly pain assessments, bleeding and weekly tests to check their levels of progesterone Y GCH .

PVI accurately predicted the outcome of pregnancy in 94% of women with full-term pregnancies, and also predicted the outcome in 77% of women whose pregnancies ended in pregnancy. abortion .

This tool could now allow the doctors, avoid unnecessary treatments in approximately 80% of women with threatened abortion, They often go through several blood tests and ultrasound scans to monitor the pregnancy.

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