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Reply to "confused- what do you think about my situation? and why don't they just use progesterone?"
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[quote=Anonymous]OP again- here's one- it's more about ectopic pregnancies http://www.aafp.org/afp/2006/0601/p1892.html Progesterone levels may be helpful in the evaluation of suspected ectopic pregnancy if they are very high or very low. The authors quote a sensitivity of 15 percent for progesterone levels in ectopic pregnancy. Of course, the sensitivity of a quantitative test depends on the specific level selected for the cutoff, but in a meta-analysis2 of 27 studies, sensitivities ranged from 44 to 100 percent, depending on the threshold. In 12 studies with a total of 1,107 women, only 2.6 percent of women with an ectopic pregnancy had progesterone levels greater than 20 ng per mL (64 nmol per L).2 In 13 studies, only five of 1,615 women (0.3 percent) with progesterone levels less than 5 ng per mL (15.9 nmol per L) had a viable intrauterine pregnancy.2 [/quote]
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