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Pregnancy with abortive outcome is a medical diagnosis and treatment category. According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, pregnancy with abortive outcome is defined as "unintentional or intentional loss of a pregnancy before 22 weeks gestation." [1] Conditions and circumstances within this category include: [2] Ectopic pregnancy [2]
This is a shortened version of the eleventh chapter of the ICD-9: Complications of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Puerperium. It covers ICD codes 630 to 679 . The full chapter can be found on pages 355 to 378 of Volume 1, which contains all (sub)categories of the ICD-9.
In 2003, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that 26% of reported legal induced abortions in the United States were known to have been obtained at the end of 6 weeks of gestation or less, 18% at 7 weeks, 15% at 8 weeks, 18% at 9 through 10 weeks, 10% at 11 through 12 weeks, 6% at 13 through 15 weeks, 4% at 16 through ...
To allow comparison, the World Health Organization uses the ICD-10 definitions and recommends that any baby born without signs of life at greater than or equal to 28 completed weeks' gestation be classified as a stillbirth. [2]: Overview tab The WHO uses the ICD-10 definitions of "late fetal deaths" as their definition of stillbirth. [18]
Spontaneous fetal termination after 20 weeks of gestation is known as a stillbirth. [15] The term miscarriage is sometimes used to refer to all forms of pregnancy loss and pregnancy with abortive outcomes before 20 weeks of gestation. The most common symptom of a miscarriage is vaginal bleeding, with or without pain. [1]
For example, a pregnant female who carried one pregnancy to term with a surviving infant; carried one pregnancy to 35 weeks with surviving twins; carried one pregnancy to 9 weeks as an ectopic (tubal) pregnancy; and has three living children would have a TPAL annotation of T1, P1, A1, L3. This could also be written as 1-1-1-3.
As of 2011 among those countries that allowed abortion without restriction as to reason, the gestational limits for such abortions on request were: 37 countries set a gestational limit of 12 weeks, 7 countries of 14 weeks, 4 did not set limits, 3 at viability, 3 at 10 weeks, one at 90 days, one at 8 weeks, one at 18 weeks, and one at 24 weeks.
Late term – 41 weeks + 0 days to 41 weeks + 6 days of gestation; Full term – 39 weeks + 0 days to 40 weeks + 6 days of gestation; Early term – 37 weeks + 0 days to 38 weeks + 6 days of gestation; Preterm – ≤ 36 weeks + 6 days of gestation [5] Besides postterm pregnancy, other terminologies have been used to describe the same condition ...