Ectopic pregnancy diagnosis challenged

A top obstetric expert said she saw a gestational sac inside a mother’s womb — in sharp contrast to prior evidence given at the inquiry into a doctor who allegedly misdiagnosed an ectopic pregnancy.

Dr Keelin O’Donoghue said she found evidence of an intrauterine gestational sac, when she performed a scan on Laura Esmonde at Cork University Maternity Hospital on January 27, 2013.

Dr O’Donoghue, the lead clinician for obstetric ultrasound and foetal medicine at CUMH, told the Medical Council inquiry yesterday that she saw no mass signifying an ectopic pregnancy.