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Gemeprost in the management of second trimester intrauterine fetal death
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry, UK.
Irish Medical Journal
|March 1, 1994
Abstract:
Gemeprost (Cervagem), a synthetic PGE1 prostaglandin analogue was used to induce labour in 20 patients with second trimester intra uterine fetal death. The mean induction abortion interval was 13.8 hours; 17 of the 20 patients delivered within 24 hours. In 17 cases the placenta was retained and the uterus was evacuated under general anaesthesia. Nausea was noted in five (25%) patients, vomiting in two (10%) and diarrhoea in three (15%). No serious side-effects were encountered.