Ectopic Pregnancy in an Adolescent: A Case Report and Review of Literature

Ectopic pregnancy continues to be the leading cause of death in the first trimester. Here, we report the case of a 17-year-old female who presented with vaginal bleeding and a positive serum beta-human chorionic gonadotropin level. In addition, we review the literature, focusing on the early diagnos...

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Autores principales: Neisani Samani, Elham, Henderson, Melina M, Sanjaghsaz, Hamid, Nichols, Ronald
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Obstetrics/Gynecology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9812281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36620848
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32220
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description Ectopic pregnancy continues to be the leading cause of death in the first trimester. Here, we report the case of a 17-year-old female who presented with vaginal bleeding and a positive serum beta-human chorionic gonadotropin level. In addition, we review the literature, focusing on the early diagnosis and management with the increasing preference for nonsurgical management of ectopic pregnancy, particularly in adolescents.
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spelling pubmed-98122812023-01-05 Ectopic Pregnancy in an Adolescent: A Case Report and Review of Literature Neisani Samani, Elham Henderson, Melina M Sanjaghsaz, Hamid Nichols, Ronald Cureus Obstetrics/Gynecology Ectopic pregnancy continues to be the leading cause of death in the first trimester. Here, we report the case of a 17-year-old female who presented with vaginal bleeding and a positive serum beta-human chorionic gonadotropin level. In addition, we review the literature, focusing on the early diagnosis and management with the increasing preference for nonsurgical management of ectopic pregnancy, particularly in adolescents. Cureus 2022-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9812281/ /pubmed/36620848 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32220 Text en Copyright © 2022, Neisani Samani et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title Ectopic Pregnancy in an Adolescent: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full Ectopic Pregnancy in an Adolescent: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_fullStr Ectopic Pregnancy in an Adolescent: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full_unstemmed Ectopic Pregnancy in an Adolescent: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_short Ectopic Pregnancy in an Adolescent: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_sort ectopic pregnancy in an adolescent: a case report and review of literature
topic Obstetrics/Gynecology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9812281/
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