Management of Nonpregnant Women with Elevated Human Chorionic Gonadotropin

Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is useful in evaluating and monitoring early pregnancy as well as trophoblastic disease. Here we describe the management of women with elevated serum human chorionic gonadotropin in a case of a 51-year-old female who was unsuccessfully treated for ectopic pregnancy...

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Autores principales: Schmid, Bernd C., Reilly, Aimee, Oehler, Martin K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3819893/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24251053
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/580709
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description Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is useful in evaluating and monitoring early pregnancy as well as trophoblastic disease. Here we describe the management of women with elevated serum human chorionic gonadotropin in a case of a 51-year-old female who was unsuccessfully treated for ectopic pregnancy. She was subsequently diagnosed with pituitary hCG production, which should be considered as differential diagnosis before treatment is initiated.
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spelling pubmed-38198932013-11-18 Management of Nonpregnant Women with Elevated Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Schmid, Bernd C. Reilly, Aimee Oehler, Martin K. Case Rep Obstet Gynecol Case Report Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is useful in evaluating and monitoring early pregnancy as well as trophoblastic disease. Here we describe the management of women with elevated serum human chorionic gonadotropin in a case of a 51-year-old female who was unsuccessfully treated for ectopic pregnancy. She was subsequently diagnosed with pituitary hCG production, which should be considered as differential diagnosis before treatment is initiated. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-10-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3819893/ /pubmed/24251053 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/580709 Text en Copyright © 2013 Bernd C. Schmid et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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