IMAGING IN OBSTETRIC
EMERGENCIES
BY
DR.S.PRADEEP.MD,DNB,RD.
CONSULTANT RADIOLOGIST
FORTIS HOSPITAL.
BANGALORE
ECTOPIC PREGNANCY
SUBCHORIONIC HEMATOMA
PLACENTAL ABRUPTION
VASA PREVIA
SUCCENTURIATE PLACENTA
UTERINE RUPTURE
FIBROID DEGENERATION
CERVICAL INCOMPETENCE
ECTOPIC PREGNANACY
RIGHT THING
IN THE
WRONG PLACE
IGNITED HUMAN BOMB
LOCATION
INTRAUTERINE EXTRAUTERINE
CORNUAL TUBAL-95%
INTERSTITIAL-2.5% OVARIAN-0.5%
CERVICAL-0.1% ABDOMINAL -.1%
HETEROTOPIC PREGNANCY
1 IN 3 00 000 (HIGHER IN IVF PREG)
PREGNANCT TESTING
• URINE PREGNANCY TEST(ELISA)
• SERUM BETA HCG-
- EXTREMELY RELIABLE
- (POSITIVE WITHIN 7 DAYS
OF CONCEPTION)
• LEVELS <10mIU/L MAY NOT BE
DETECTED(FALSE NEGATIVE TEST)
LIMITATION OF
PREGNANCY TESTS
CANNOT DIFFERENTIATE
• ECTOPIC GESTATION
• INRAUTERINE NORMAL/ABNORMAL
GESTATION
• SPONTANEOUS ABORTION
SONOGRAPHY MAY SHOW
• TRUE INRAUTERINE GETATIONAL SAC
- DOUBLE DECIDUAL SAC SIGN
-YOLK SAC(10 MM GEST.SAC)
-FOETAL POLE(16MM GEST.SAC)
-CARDIAC ACTIVITY(CRL-5 MM )
• THIS RULES OUT AN ECTOPIC AS
HETEROTOPIC PREGNANCY IS RARE
EVOLUTION OF NORMAL IU
PREGNANCY
0
10
0
1st
Qtr
4th
Qtr
E
as
W
es
N
or
DOUBLE DECIDUAL SAC SIGN
TRUE IU GESTATIONAL SAC
NEGATIVE TVS
• NO IU GESTATIONAL SAC
• NO ADNEXAL ABNORMALITY
POSSIBLITIES ARE
• EARLY SPONTANEOUS ABORTION
• EARLY IU NORMAL/ABNORMAL GESTATION
• ECTOPIC GESTATION
BETA HCG
• IU GESTATIONAL SAC SHOLD BE SEEN ON TVS
WITH A BETA HCG OF 1000mIU/L
• IF NOT THE POSSIBILITY OF AN ECTOPIC IS
VERY LIKELY
BETA HCG
• TIME Miu/l
• 1 week 0-50
• 2 week 20-500
• 3 week 500-5000
• 4 week 3000-19000
• 8 week 14000-16000
• 12 week 16000-160000
SERIAL BETA HCG
AT 48 HRS
VALUE DECREASES
- SPONTANEOUS ABORTION
VALUE DOUBLES
- IN 85% OF NORMAL IU GEST(4-6 WKS)
- IN 13% OF ECTOPICS
VALUE INCREASES SUBNORMALLY(<66%)
- IN 80% OF ECTOPIC GESTATION
- IN 15% OF IU GEST
VALUE INCRESES OR DECREASES
- ABNORMAL IU GESTATION
(MOLE / BLIGHTED OVUM)
REPEAT TVS
• IU DDSS/FOETAL POLE
• BLIGHTED OVUM/MOLAR PREG
• ADNEXAL MASS/FREE FLUID-ECTOPIC
• NO ABNORMAL FINDINGS-HIGHLY
SUSPICIOUS FOR AN ECTOPIC-LAPROSCOPY
TVS FINDINGS IN ECTOPIC
GESTATION
• PSEUDO INTRAUTERINE SAC
• ADNEXAL SAC
• ADNEXAL SAC WITH YOLK SAC
• ADNEXAL SAC WITH FOETAL POLE
• ADNEXAL NODULE
• ADNEXAL MASS
• ADNEXAL MASS WITH TURBID FLUID
PSEUDOGESTATIONAL SAC
10% 0F ECTOPICS
CLASSICAL TUBAL ECTOPIC
T2 WI OF ECTOPIC SAC
ECTOPIC SAC WITHOUT YS
ECTOPIC SAC WITH YOLK
SAC
INCREASE IN SIZE OF
ECTOPIC TWO DAYS LATER
POST MTP ECTOPIC
FOURTH ECTOPIC
DEAD EMBRYO IN ECTOPIC
SAC
POST MTP CHRONIC DEAD
ECTOPIC
POST MTP LIVE ECTOPIC
CARDIAC ACTIVITY
IN LIVE ECTOPIC
INVITRO SCAN OF
UNRUPTURED SAC MILKED
OUT FROM TUBE
TUBAL HEMATOCELE
RT TUBAL HEMATOCELE
UNRUPTURED TUBAL
HEMATOCELE
TUBAL HEMATOCELE
LARGE TUBAL
HEMATOCELE
T2WI OF TUBAL HEMATOCELE
RUPTURED TUBE
RUPTURED TUBE
ECTOPIC WITH PERI TUBAL
HEMOPERITONEUM
RUPTURED ECTOPIC WITH
HEMOPERITONEUM
RUPTURED ECTOPIC
RUPTURED CHRONIC
ECTOPIC
CHRONIC RUPTURED
ECTOPIC
TUBAL ABORTION
RIGHT CORNUAL ECTOPIC
T2WI IN RT CORNUAL ECTOPIC
OVARIAN ECTOPIC
HETEROTOPIC PREGNANCY
HETEROTOPIC PREGNANCY
DOPPLER IN ECTOPIC
1 st PREG RUPTURED ECTOPIC-
HEMOPERITONEUM
CT IN HEMOPERITONEUM
2 nd-ECTOPIC MANAGED WITH
METHOTREXATE
CORPUS LUTEAL CYST
MIMIKING ECTOPIC
DD
SUBSEROUS FIBROID
MIMIKING ECTOPIC
RT OVARIAN CORPUS
HEMORRHAGICUM
WHERE IS THE ECTOPIC?
TVS NEXT DAY SHOWED
THE ECTOPIC
?CORPUS LUTEAL CYST
?ECTOPIC
ONE DAY LATER THE
ECTOPIC WAS FOUND
LOOK AT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
ECTOPIC AND CORPUS LUTEAL CYST
CORPUS LUTEAL CYST
WHAT IS IT ?
DEVELOP A SONIC EYE
PROTOCOL IN DIAGNOSING
ECTOPIC
SUBCHORIONIC HEMATOMA
PLACENTAL ABRUPTION AND
RETROPLACENTAL HEMATOMA
ECHOPATTERNS OF
RETROPLACENTAL HEMATOMAS
VASA PREVIA-
VELAMENTOUS INSERTION OF
CORD
TYPES OF VASA PREVIA
COMPLICATIONS OF VASA PREVIA
CORD VESSELS CLOSELY APPOSED
TO THE CERVICAL INNER OS
SUCCENTURIATE PLACENTA
SUCCENTURIATE PLACENTA WITH
BRIDGING VESSELS
BILOBATE PLACENTA WITH CORD
INSERTION INBETWEEN
MRI IN VASA PREVIA
BILOBED VS SUCCENTURIATE
PLACENTA
UTERINE RUPTURE
FIBROID DEGENERATION IN
PREGNANCY-
CYSTIC/RED/MYXOID TYPES
CERVICAL INCOMPETENCE
TAS/TVS
CERVICAL INCOMPETENCE
THANK YOU
DR S PRADEEP.

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