Curettage (Dilation and Curettage, Pregnancy Termination)
It is the process of terminating an unwanted pregnancy or in cases where the continuation of the pregnancy is not recommended due to health problems or when the baby's heartbeat stops in the mother's womb. Sometimes curettage can be performed for the fetuses or embyos (babies in the womb of the women) whose heartbeat has stopped, and sometimes to drain the remaining parts of the fetuses in the uterus of the women who have had a miscarriage (retention curettage, RC). Curettage is an uterine evacuation procedure.
In public; termed as termination of pregnancy, abortion.
Decisions taken on how and to whom the dilatation and curettage procedure will be carried out are regulated in the 'Regulation on the Execution and Supervision of Uterine Evacuation and Sterilization Services'. According to this regulation, pregnancies below 10 weeks can be legally terminated under certain conditions in Turkey.
If a woman over the age of 18 is not married, she has the right to terminate the pregnancy under 10 weeks, only with her own consent.
If the women is married with a men, then the consent of her husband should be taken, if there is no obstacle in her health.
Sometimes, in emergency situations that threaten the woman's life, the doctor may have to perform this procedure without asking the patient. In this case, the doctor is obliged to report the situation to the legal authorities.
Is the Curettage Procedure Applied Only for the Termination of the Pregnancies?
Curettage is the process of removing the tissue inside the uterus by scraping or suction (aspiration, menstrual regulation) method.
Not only in pregnant women, but also in women who are bleeding and not pregnant, scraping or aspiration can be applied to the intrauterine tissue in the form of taking a piece to diagnose uterine cancer or precursor pathologies, or to clean and treat the intrauterine tissue of non-pregnant women with heavy bleeding (Probe curettage, Fractionated curettage, endometrial curettage, endocervical curettage, therapeutic curettage).
