الأربعاء، 23 سبتمبر 2015

Doctors advised to wait longer before diagnosing miscarriages

Experts say hospital guidelines need to be updated so women always get second ultrasound scan two weeks after first if gestational sac is small

Doctors are being advised to wait longer before they diagnose a miscarriage in order to avoid the risk of ending a pregnancy that might have been viable.

Experts who have carried out a large study say the guidelines for hospitals on diagnosing a miscarriage need to be updated, so that women always get a second ultrasound scan two weeks after the first if the gestational sac seen in the scan is small. It is not always possible to be sure that a very small embryo with no detectable heartbeat is going to miscarry, they say.

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from Pregnancy | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1gPVhNE

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