Early Pregnancy Complications

Supplement your learning for Early Pregnancy Complications.

Join us for this engaging and informative course. Together with a panel of expert speakers from around the world, they will dive into the latest discourse surrounding ultrasound beyond the fetus. This course offers attendees a valuable opportunity to gain a comprehensive understanding of the new advances in this area and learn how to apply them in practical situations.

Learning outcomes:

Understand the criteria to diagnose miscarriage and the potential for error
Learn about the psychological impact of miscarriage and latest work on how this may be ameliorated
Be updated on the use of biomarkers in early pregnancy to manage PUL and ectopic pregnancy
Understand how to diagnose and manage non-tubal ectopic pregnancy including caesarean scar pregnancy
The assessment and management of ovarian cysts in pregnancy
Be updated on the modern management of hyperemesis
Understand how to assess retained pregnancy tissue and when to intervene

Explore the topic before you attend our course

In order to make the most of this learning experience and help you achieve your learning objectives, we have prepared a path to guide you from the essentials to our course’s topics through ISUOG resources. The material below, will take you from the most basics to a more comprehensive view of Ultrasound meets genetics, some open to everyone and some available only to ISUOG members –some may even grant you CME points:
Some of these activities are exclusively available to our members. Become a member today.

ISUOG Guidelines

ISUOG Practice Guidelines (updated): Performance of the first-trimester fetal ultrasound scan

ISUOG Practice Guidelines: point-of-care ultrasound in obstetrics and gynecology

VISUOG

Cesarean Scar Pregnancy

Cesarean scar pregnancy (CSP) is an abnormal implantation of the gestational sac in the area of the prior caesarean delivery (CD) scar, potentially leading to life-threatening complications, including severe haemorrhage, uterine rupture and development of placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) disorders.

Miscarriage

Miscarriage is the most common complication of pregnancy, and affects 25% of women who have been pregnant by the age of 39 years. It is essential that ultrasound diagnosis is made with 100% specificity, so that there is no danger of inadvertent termination of a viable pregnancy.

Pregnancy of Unknown Location (PUL)

A PUL is defined as occuring when a patient tests positively for pregnancy but the initial transvaginal ultrasound scan is not able to locate the pregnancy. It is currently believed that the best way to manage these cases is by performing risk prediction, for which hCG and progesterone are used as biomarkers.

Tubal Ectopic Pregnancy

An ectopic pregnancy is defined as the presence of a pregnancy outside the uterine cavity, the commonest location being the fallopian tube. They account for 1-2% of pregnancies in the UK and may be as high as 4% with assisted conception.

Patient Information

Pregnancy of unknown location or PUL

This leaflet is to help you understand what Pregnancy of Unknown Location (PUL) is, what are its symptoms, what tests do you need, and what should you be watching out for.

Tubal Ectopic Pregnancy

This leaflet is to help you understand Tubal Ectopic Pregnancy.

Cesarean scar pregnancy

This leaflet is to help you understand more about Cesarean scar pregnancy.

Miscarriage

This leaflet is to help you understand miscarriage.

UOG Articles

Multiple pregnancy with complete hydatidiform mole and coexisting normal fetus: systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical outcomes from non-randomized studies

N. Salmeri, A. Pizzetti, E. Grassi, R. Cioffi, G. Mangili, M. Seckl, A. Sotiriadis, M. Candiani, P. I. Cavoretto

09 October 2025

Uniform early first-trimester sonography: the time has arrived

D. M. Sherer, M. Kheyman, V. Hsieh, M. Dalloul

02 October 2025

Interpregnancy interval and risk of recurrence following tubal ectopic pregnancy: retrospective cohort study from UK tertiary center

W. M. Dooley, J. Farren, L. V. de Braud, S. A. Solangon, N. Thanatsis, B. H. Al Wattar, D. Jurkovic

05 June 2025

Local injection of thrombin: a novel fertility-preserving approach for treatment of Cesarean scar ectopic pregnancy complicated by persistent uterine pseudoaneurysm

S. Nijjar, J. Hague, C. Von Stempel, D. Jurkovic

08 May 2025

Accuracy of cell-free fetal DNA in detecting chromosomal anomalies in women experiencing miscarriage: systematic review and meta-analysis

L. Della Valle, M. Piergianni, A. Khalil, G. Rizzo, I. Mappa, B. Matarrelli, A. Lucidi, L. Manzoli, M. E. Flacco, L. Stuppia, F. D'Antonio

07 December 2024

Updating M6 pregnancy of unknown location risk-prediction model including evaluation of clinical factors

C. Kyriacou, A. Ledger, S. Bobdiwala, F. Ayim, E. Kirk, O. Abughazza, S. Guha, V. Vathanan, D. Gould, D. Timmerman, B. Van Calster, T. Bourne, Collaborators

16 October 2023