Anonymous wrote:I don't want to scare you unnecessarily, but with an HCG of 50,000 it's virtually inconceivable that you wouldn't see a HB if everything was normal and if your OB practice uses up to day transvaginal u/s equipment. In one NIH study of u/s technology, every patient with HCG of 10,800 had a visible HB. Now, if you're talking about an abdominal u/s or old equipment, possibly a different story... Although I'd still worry about the lack of a fetal pole post-6 weeks.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2660539