For professionals

The For Professionals section will be coming soon to the Ectopic Pregnancy Trust website.

It will be a collection of peer-reviewed writings and articles. The aim is to provide fellow professionals, involved in the diagnosis, treatment, care and management of patients, with ectopic or suspected ectopic pregnancy; with current research based statements and information, written by experts, to assist colleagues, in the delivery of excellence in practice.

We welcome submissions from professionals with a particular interest and appropriate background in the professional diagnosis, treatment, care and management of patients with ectopic or suspected ectopic pregnancy. If you wish to submit an item please view our contributors guidelines.

Ectopic pregnancy news for professionals

“Why do pregnancies implant in the wrong place?” Talk at Edinburgh International Science Festival

Dr Andrew Horne, medical advisor to The EPT and his colleage, Colin Duncan are giving a lecture at the Edinburgh Science Festival 2012. Their talk “Why do pregnancies implant in the wrong place?” Will cover the following points Early pregnancy loss in women, which is often due to defects that occur before, during [...]

A model and scoring system to predict outcome of intrauterine pregnancies of uncertain viability

Description of a model to define the incidence and outcome of intrauterine pregnancy of uncertain viability (PUV) and to develop and assess the performance of a model and a scoring system to predict ongoing viability. C. Bottomley, V. Van Belle, A. Pexsters, A. T. Papageorghiou, F. Mukri, E. Kirk, S. Van Huffel, D. Timmerman, T. [...]

The METEX Study: Methotrexate vs Expectant management

The METEX study: Methotrexate versus expectant management in women with ectopic pregnancy: A randomised controlled trial To study whether expectant management is an alternative to treatment with systemic MTX in a single dose im regimen in women with an EP and low but plateauing serum hCG concentrations in terms of tubal rupture, future pregnancy, health [...]

Does a prediction model for pregnancy of unknown location developed in the UK validate on a US population?

Does a prediction model for pregnancy of unknown location developed in the UK validate on a US population? K.T. Barnhart1,2,*, M.D. Sammel2, D. Appleby2, M. Rausch1, T. Molinaro1, B. Van Calster3, E. Kirk4, G. Condous5, S. Van Huffel3, D. Timmerman6 and T. Bourne6,7 A logistic regression model (M4) was developed in the UK to predict [...]

Urgent attention: All staff who undertake sonography and early pregnancy scans

Addendum to GTG No 25 (Oct 2006): The Management of Early Pregnancy Loss Recent research suggests that given inter-observer variability in ultrasound measurements and the greater variation in early embryonic growth than has hitherto been assumed, a more conservative approach to the diagnosis of early pregnancy loss is warranted. The studies from Imperial [...]

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