Clinics and hospitals currently defer medication abortion until ultrasound confirms a pregnancy inside the uterus.
Karolinska InstitutetNov 6 2024 However, a large international study led by researchers from Karolinska Institutet now indicates that treatment can be equally effective and safe even before the sixth week of pregnancy. The study is published in The New England Journal of Medicine .
Karin Brandell, study's first author, gynecologist at Karolinska University Hospital and doctoral student at the Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden "Very early medical abortion was just as effective and safe to perform, even in case of an undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy," says Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the same department at Karolinska Institutet, senior physician at Karolinska University Hospital and project leader of the VEMA study.
"Abortion is a political as well as a medical issue," says Dr Brandell. "In Sweden, a woman can repeat the procedure a week after a failed early abortion. But a woman in Texas, where abortion is banned after the sixth week, can't. It was therefore important to show that early abortion is equivalent to current standard procedure at a later stage of pregnancy."
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