Is transvaginal ultrasound necessary for follow-up of medical abortion?

Unexpected pregnancy can make women panic. Some special reasons may cause many women to choose to have abortions. If it is in the early stage, medical abortion can be performed because the side effects of such abortion will be relatively small. Even in the later stage, uterine curettage may be required due to incomplete abortion, but this is only a few individual cases. These examinations need to be performed during the follow-up after medical abortion to determine whether the abortion was complete.

Is transvaginal ultrasound necessary for follow-up after medical abortion?

Under normal circumstances, if a pregnant woman wants to have a follow-up examination of the medical abortion after having an abortion by injection or oral administration of abortion drugs, she only needs to do an abdominal B-ultrasound and no transvaginal ultrasound is needed.

Although vaginal ultrasound can see much more clearly than abdominal B-ultrasound, for the follow-up after medical abortion, only abdominal B-ultrasound is needed to fully understand the situation of medical abortion and uterine recovery, so there is no need to go through the trouble of doing vaginal ultrasound. Of course, if the patient thinks it is necessary to do a vaginal ultrasound and insists on asking the doctor to do it for them, they can also choose to review the medical abortion through vaginal ultrasound.

However, because the examination area of ​​vaginal ultrasound is the female genitals, which is the most private part of the human body, during the examination, both the doctor and the woman being examined will inevitably feel a little embarrassed, and both the doctor and the patient will have a certain psychological burden. If a vaginal ultrasound is required during a follow-up of a medical abortion, a female doctor will usually be asked to perform the examination. Nowadays, hospitals are usually busy and female doctors may not be available, so if you want to do a transvaginal ultrasound, you will need to wait longer in the hospital.

The above is the explanation on the question of whether a vaginal ultrasound should be done during follow-up examination after medical abortion. If a woman who becomes pregnant unexpectedly has a medical abortion, she must go to the hospital for a follow-up examination after 8 to 10 days. She must not be too lazy to go to the hospital for a follow-up examination just because she thinks it is troublesome or thinks the medical abortion was very successful. After all, if there is an abnormal situation and it is not dealt with in time, it is very dangerous.