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Radiology, Vol 167, 619-622, Copyright © 1988 by Radiological Society of North America

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Early pregnancy complications: endovaginal sonographic findings correlated with human chorionic gonadotropin levels

DA Nyberg, LA Mack, FC Laing and RB Jeffrey
Department of Radiology, University of Washington Hospital, Seattle.

Endovaginal sonography results were compared with quantitatively determined human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) levels in 84 women referred for early pregnancy complications. Of the 27 with normal intrauterine pregnancies, an intrauterine gestational sac was prospectively identified in one of five cases (20%) in which hCG levels were below 500 IU/L (Second International Standard), four of five (80%) with hCG levels of 500-1,000 IU/L, and all 17 with hCG levels above 1,000 IU/L. In comparison, 17 of the 26 women with ectopic pregnancies (65%) had hCG levels greater than 1,000 IU/L, and none of the 26 had an intrauterine gestational sac. Endovaginal sonography demonstrated an adnexal mass and/or a gestational sac-like structure in 16 of the 17 cases (94%) in which hCG levels were above 1,000 IU/L, compared with only three of the nine (33%) with lower hCG levels (P less than .01). These findings indicate that an intrauterine gestational sac should be normally visualized with endovaginal sonography when the hCG level exceeds 1,000 IU/L, and that visualization of an extrauterine gestational sac and/or adnexal mass is significantly more likely in ectopic pregnancies when the hCG level exceeds 1,000 IU/L.


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