BackDuration: 10 minutes
Used to assess reproductive health and monitor high risk pregnancies
Clinical significance of test
Progesterone (P4) is an endogenous steroid and progestogen sex hormone involved in the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and embryogenesis of humans and other species. It belongs to a group of steroid hormones called the progestogens and is the major progestogen in the body. Progesterone has a variety of important functions in the body. It is also a crucial metabolic intermediate in the production of other endogenous steroids, including the sex hormones and the corticosteroids, and plays an important role in brain function as a neurosteroid.
Steps of operation
Clinical application
- Find the cause of a woman’s infertility (the inability to make a baby)
- Find out if and when you are ovulating
- Find out your risk of a miscarriage
- Monitor a high-risk pregnancy
- Diagnose an ectopic pregnancy, a pregnancy that grows in the wrong place (outside the uterus)
Interpretation of results
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