Usefulness of laboratory tests in the contemporary diagnosis of miscarriage

Wojciech Kaźmierczak; Patrycja Fiegler; Kazimierz Kamiński; Piotr Węgrzyn

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Usefulness of laboratory tests in the contemporary diagnosis of miscarriage

Wojciech Kaźmierczak

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Patrycja Fiegler

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Kazimierz Kamiński

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Piotr Węgrzyn

Gin Prakt 2004, 12, 4: 16-20

Online publish date: 2004/09/23

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Laboratory tests, especially some hormonal investigations, are useful but rather supportive measures in the diagnosis of miscarriage. These are being substituted by fast developing ultrasound visualization and therefore become gradually a second line tests.
Nevertheless, serial placental hormone titres in a combination with ultrasound allows accurate diagnosis and prediction of the outcome in 95-99% of endangered pregnancies. Such a combination is a standard used for a pregnancy confirmation, monitoring and further prediction of its outcome as well as placental sufficiency and foetal goodstanding tests.
Authors made a literature review of laboratory tests used in the modern diagnostics of abortion.

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Usefulness of laboratory tests in the contemporary diagnosis of miscarriage

Wojciech Kaźmierczak , Patrycja Fiegler , Kazimierz Kamiński , Piotr Węgrzyn

miscarriage, recurrent miscarriage, biochemical tests

Wojciech Kaźmierczak

,

Patrycja Fiegler

,

Kazimierz Kamiński

,

Piotr Węgrzyn