TIME LENGTH OF NEGATIVIZATION OF HCG SERUM VALUES AFTER EITHER SURGICAL OR MEDICAL-TREATMENT OF ECTOPIC PREGNANCY

Objective. The aim of this study was to compare the time length until the human chorionic gonadotropin titer became negative after medical o r surgical treatment of ectopic pregnancy. Experimental design. Prospe ctive, randomized study. Participants and interventions. We compared t ime to resolution in 30 cases of tubal pregnancies successfully treate d, 15 underwent laparoscopic linear salpingostomy (group 1) and 15 med ical treatment with single-ose methotrexate (group 2), The patients of both groups had no meaningful differences of age, gestational age and human chorionic gonadotropin mean values. Measures. During the follow -up human chorionic gonadotropin serum values were obtained every two days until the titer was negative. Results, The time to resolution was 33.6 +/- 6.6 days in group 1, 31.5 +/- 7.8 in group 2 with no statist ically meaningful differences, Conclusion. The data, comparable with r esults obtained by laparoscopic treatment, suggest that human chorioni c gonadotropin value becomes negative independently of type of treatme nt and residual trophoblast.