Routine tests, such as physical exam, urine and blood tests, Pap test, pelvic ultrasound, and imaging, can be used to determine if you have gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD). (Photo Credit ...

Low-risk patients with gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) are initially treated with methotrexate (MTX)/folinic acid (FA) as this regimen is well tolerated and has no long-term sequelae.

This is reasonable if the initial evacuation was incomplete and the disease is confined to the uterine cavity on ultrasound. However, analysis of our data has shown that if the hCG is plateaued or ...

Gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) is a rare group of tumors that develop early in pregnancy. It occurs when abnormal cells grow in the "trophoblastic" tissue which typically surrounds the ...