OBJECTIVE: To identify clinical characteristics associated with developing persistent gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN) after partial hydatidiform molar pregnancy (PHM). STUDY DESIGN: Utilizing the Donald P. Goldstein in patients who developed persistence between 1973 and 1989. CONCLUSION: Older age at diagnosis and history of prior mole were significantly more common in women who developed persistence after partial molar pregnancy in referral of patients the earlier cohort but not in idefined clinical the recent cohort. In recent years no clinical factor was at increase their risk significantly associated with rsistence. database at the New England Trophoblastic Disease Center, 284 women with partial molar pregnancy diagnosed between 1973 and 2003 were characteristics identified. Clinical charac- for pe teristics, such as gravidity, parity, age, uterine size, gestational age at diagnosis, human chorionic gonadotropin levels at presentation and time to development of persistence (GTN) were analyzed. Data were also divided into 2 cohorts, an earlier one (1973-1989) and a later one (1990-2003), in order to look at potential changes over time. RESULTS: GTN developed in 5.6% of partial molar pregnancies. Older maternal age was significantly associated with development of persistent GTN in the earlier cohort but not in the recent cohort. Previous molar pregnancy was also statistically significantly more common the development of +/-after PHM.
OBJECTIVE: To identify clinical characteristics associated with developing persistent gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN) after partial hydatidiform molar pregnancy (PHM). STUDY DESIGN: Utilizing the Donald P. Goldstein in patients who developed persistence between 1973 and 1989. CONCLUSION: Older age at diagnosis and history of prior mole were significantly more common in women who developed persistence after partial molar pregnancy in referral of patients the earlier cohort but not in idefined clinical the recent cohort. In recent years no clinical factor was at increase their risk significantly associated with rsistence. database at the New England Trophoblastic Disease Center, 284 women with partial molar pregnancy diagnosed between 1973 and 2003 were characteristics identified. Clinical charac- for pe teristics, such as gravidity, parity, age, uterine size, gestational age at diagnosis, human chorionic gonadotropin levels at presentation and time to development of persistence (GTN) were analyzed. Data were also divided into 2 cohorts, an earlier one (1973-1989) and a later one (1990-2003), in order to look at potential changes over time. RESULTS: GTN developed in 5.6% of partial molar pregnancies. Older maternal age was significantly associated with development of persistent GTN in the earlier cohort but not in the recent cohort. Previous molar pregnancy was also statistically significantly more common the development of +/-after PHM.
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