TY - BOOK AU - Nada Hossam Aldin Ahmed AU - Adel Farouk , AU - Reham Ashraf , AU - Samah Aboulgheit , TI - Yolk sac size and shape, gestational sac diameter & embryonic heart rate as prognostic factors of first trimesteric outcome / PY - 2015/// CY - Cairo : PB - Nada Hossam Aldin Ahmed , KW - Gestational sac diameter KW - Yolk sac shape KW - Yolk sac size N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics; Issued also as CD N2 - Background: Ultrasonography is a useful method for determining the status of early pregnancy. First-trimester sonography is useful for dating, assessing a number of gestations, establishing location, and even detecting some early malformations. Aim of the work: he aim of this study is to assess the correlation between each of the ultrasound parameters that were assessed in the first trimester (the gestational sac size, yolk sac size & shape and fetal cardiac activity) to early pregnancy loss, the correlation between these ultrasound parameters to each other & the correlation between the patient clinical characteristics and early pregnancy loss. Methods: This was a prospective study of 120 pregnant women during the 1st trimester in Kasr Al Aini from May 2014 to February 2015. Each woman was subjected to TVS at 6 to 8 weeks of pregnancy & follow up U/S every 2 weeks till 12 weeks ER -