Cost of medical treatment with methotrexate for ectopic pregnancy. Study comparing medical treatment versus laparoscopy. Experience of Aziza Othmana Hospital].

The ectopic pregnancy can be treated surgically (conservative or radical) or medically. Currently, the choice between medical and surgical treatment is a critical issue. One of the parameters of this choice is the total cost of management. To compare the cost of the management of ectopic pregnancy by medical treatment (methotrexate, MTX) and coeliochirurgicaux. This is a prospective, comparative, nonrandomized,unicentric study, on 39 patients who have ectopic pregnancies treated with MTX versus 16 patients treated by laparoscopic surgery with conservative treatment. This study was collected at the service of Obstetrics and Gynecology Reproductive Medicine Aziza Othmana Hospital (Tunis) for a period of two years. The average cost of hospital stay per patient was 549.38 dt for the MTX group against 268.39 dt for laparoscopic surgery group (p <0.001). There was no statistically significant difference between the two groups. In terms of overall absenteeism, there is no statistically significant difference (16.43 vs 17.5 days). The initial treatment with MTX costs more cost than the conservative laparoscopic treatment and this is mainly due to the long period of hospitalization.

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Anis Fadhlaoui, Hanene Oueslati, Zied Khedhiri, Mohamed Khrouf, Anis Chaker, Fethi Zhioua. Cost of medical treatment with methotrexate for ectopic pregnancy. Study comparing medical treatment versus laparoscopy. Experience of Aziza Othmana Hospital]. La Tunisie médicale. 2013 Feb;91(2):112-6

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