A 29-year-old woman presents with 7 weeks of amenorrhoea, lower abdominal pain and spotting. Her last period was normal. Serum β-hCG is 1500 IU/L and ...

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A 29-year-old woman presents with 7 weeks of amenorrhoea, lower abdominal pain and spotting. Her last period was normal. Serum β-hCG is 1500 IU/L and transvaginal ultrasound shows no intrauterine gestational sac. She is haemodynamically stable. What diagnosis must be presumed until proven otherwise?

Accepted Answer

Ectopic pregnancy

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Threatened miscarriage

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Molar pregnancy

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Corpus luteum cyst

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Normal early intrauterine pregnancy

ca-mccqe1 MCQ (SBA): Ectopic pregnancy suspicion