Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Molar pregnancies are part of a group of diseases classified as gestational trophoblastic diseases. For any woman of childbearing age presenting with abnormal vaginal bleeding, an hCG assay should always be carried out and, if elevated, a pelvic ultrasound should be performed. Non-molar pregnancy (normal intrauterine pregnancy, ectopic pregnancy and spontaneous abortion) is the most likely diagnosis, but hydatidiform mole should always be considered. Molar pregnancy is now diagnosed and managed earlier, thanks to the systematic use of ultrasound in all pregnant patients. Post-molar pregnancies have an extremely variable course, ranging from repeated abortions, stillbirths, premature births, live births, or reproducing in other molar pregnancies.
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4412357086