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ABORTUSE
DEFINITIONS
IMMENENS
CLASSIFICATION
INKOMPLIT
KOMPLIT
ABORTUS IMMENENS
INTRODUCTION
• Imminent abortion is when a woman might be
losing her baby during the first half of
pregnancy; is the commonest complication in
pregnancy and is a serious emotional burden
for women.
• Management of imminent abortion is mostly
empirical. Bed rest is routinely recommended.
DEFINITIONS
• Threatened abortion is the occurrence of
events bleeding from the uterus in pregnancy
before 20 weeks, with the products of
conception still in the uterus and viable, and
cervix closed
EPIDEMIOLOGY
• The prevalence of abortion also increased with
increasing age, whereas in women aged 20 year is 12%,
and in women over 45 years is 50% .4 Eighty percent of
abortions occur in The first 12 weeks of pregnancy.