Outcome, complications and future fertility in women treated with uterine artery embolization and methotrexate for non-tubal ectopic pregnancy

European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

Volumn 182, Issue , 2014, Pages 172-176

  Krissi, Haim ^a,b   Hiersch, Liran ^b   Stolovitch, Natan ^b   Nitke, Shmuel ^a,b   Wiznitzer, Arnon ^a,b   Peled, Yoav ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cervical pregnancy; Cesarean scar pregnancy; Interstitial pregnancy; Methotrexate; Uterine artery embolization

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; FOLINIC ACID; GELFOAM; METHOTREXATE; ABORTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADULT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CERVICAL PREGNANCY; CESAREAN SECTION SCAR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INGUINAL PAIN; INJECTION SITE INFECTION; INTERSTITIAL PREGNANCY; INTERSTITIAL PREGNANCY (DISEASE); KIDNEY FAILURE; LEG PAIN; LIVER FAILURE; NULLIPARA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN INFECTION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BLOOD; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; UTERINE ARTERY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ADULT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; METHOTREXATE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION;

EID: 84920674755     PISSN: 03012115     EISSN: 18727654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2014.09.026     Document Type: Article

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