Ectopic pregnancies after infertility treatment: modern diagnosis and therapeutic strategy

Human Reproduction Update
H Fernandez, Amelie Gervaise

Abstract

Ectopic pregnancy (EP) is a major event in a woman's reproductive life. It complicates infertility treatment and must be recognized early to simplify the treatment strategy, which must always be directed towards optimizing subsequent fertility. Epidemiological findings indicate that tubal history and smoking are the principal risk factors of those EP that are considered reproductive (rather than contraceptive) failures. Adding together the attributable risks for EP allows the construction of a risk scale to determine its probability for any given patient. This risk calculation makes it easier to establish a diagnostic strategy that uses abdominal and transvaginal ultrasound and hCG assays. Progesterone assays are useful only for determining the activity of the pregnancy but do not help to identify its site. Conservative treatment is to be preferred unless the EP occurs on a known hydrosalpinx. All the treatment trials and the Cochrane database meta-analysis show that medical treatment with methotrexate, preferably multidose, is equivalent in efficacy to conservative treatment with laparoscopy in the populations studied. Heterotopic pregnancies, which occur most often after assisted reproduction technology (1-3%), should prefera...Continue Reading

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