- Topic: Pregnancy Failure
- Type: Staff Publication
- Author: Dabash, R., Cherine Ramadan, M., Darwish, E., Hassanein, N., Blum, J., Winikoff, B.
- Published: October 2010
A randomized controlled trial of 400-μg sublingual misoprostol versus manual vacuum aspiration for the treatment of incomplete abortion in two Egyptian hospitals.
This article reports on the results of a study comparing sublingual misoprostol to MVA for the treatment of incomplete abortion in Egypt. The results demonstrate that misoprostol is a highly effective and feasible treatment alternative to surgery, and that the likelihood of a clinically important drop in Hb (<2 g/dl) post treatment is comparably rare following medical and surgical treatment. The abstract of this article can be found at the following link: International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetetrics (Nov 2010); Vol. 111, Issue 2, Pages 131-135).