Diagnosis and Treatment of Unsuccesful Pregnancies
Different Types of unsuccessful pregnancies
- Missed abortion (intrauterine death of the embryo)
- Miscarriage (uterinal spasms and bleeding resulting in spontaneous abortion)
- Habitual abortion (miscarriages in two or more consecutive pregnancies)
- Extrauterine gravidity
- Immature and premature birth
Causes
- Mostly unknown
- Genetic disorders
- Corpus luteum insufficiency
- Uterinal malformations
- Incompetence of the cervical canal (insufficiency in the function of the cervical smooth-muscles)
- Adrenal or thyroideal disorders, diabetes
- Fibroid (myoma) of the uterus
- Bacterial and viral infections, pelvic inflammatory disease
- Smoking, alcoholism, intoxications
Check up
- Gynecologic examination
- Measurement of hormone levels in blood
- Transabdominal or vaginal ultrasound
- Hysteroscopy and laparoscopy
Treatment
Appropriate medication, sometimes surgical treatment recommended by the gynecologist.