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Learning objectives
• Diagnostic criteria for ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage
• Importance of 100% specificity in the diagnosis of miscarriage
• Additional tools for determining the presence of an intra‐uterine gestational sac by ultrasound
• Knowledge of the possible limitations of the use of biochemical markers serum hCG and progesterone for the diagnosis of miscarriage in pregnancy of unknown location (PUL) and intra‐uterine pregnancy of unknown viability (IPUV)
Adapted from review Rai and Regan in the Lancet 2006
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Epidemiology of miscarriage
Santos M A et al. Reproduction 2010;139:23-34
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