If you’re a woman of childbearing age and you’re reading this today, then congratulations, death from ectopic pregnancy is a long way off!
There are three reasons.
(1) By reading this article, you know that there is such a thing as ectopic pregnancy.
(2) At the same time, you also know that it is possible to die from an ectopic pregnancy.
(3) So, when you suspect an ectopic pregnancy, you won’t just sit there and wait for it to happen, the possibility of you dying from it is already slim!
1. What is an ectopic pregnancy?
As the name implies, ectopic pregnancy means that the pregnancy occurs outside the uterine cavity, including any part of the body outside the uterine cavity, the most common of which is tubal pregnancy, accounting for about 95% of ectopic pregnancies, and also includes: cervical pregnancy, scar pregnancy after cesarean section, horn pregnancy, ovarian pregnancy, abdominal pregnancy …… and the recently reported There has been one case of pregnancy in a rare location such as the liver.
2. Why is ectopic pregnancy dangerous?
Simply put, it is because it bleeds, it bleeds profusely, and it is invisible bleeding (not vaginal bleeding, which is visible and easily detected and therefore not scary).
Pregnancy is made up of the embryo and the accessory structures such as the placental villi that support the development of the embryo. The placental villi have a characteristic that their trophoblast cells can grow invasively and have the vascular erosion ability of some malignant tumor cells, and the site of its attachment is necessarily rich in blood supply and vascular clusters. Whether this pregnancy is a fatal miscarriage or the pregnancy grows and bursts through the area where it is located, it may cause bleeding. If arterial bleeding is involved, the amount and speed of bleeding is also more dangerous.
3. What kind of people may have ectopic pregnancy?
Any woman of childbearing age can have an ectopic pregnancy! Here we have to emphasize the concept of “reproductive age”, which includes all women who can still menstruate, including girls as young as 14 or 15 years old and perimenopausal women in their 50s who are not yet fully menopausal. Do not swear that “impossible, we took xxx measures”, no matter what, as long as women of childbearing age, as long as they have had sex, whether you happen to be 1 month ago or 2 months ago or even 3 months ago, first check the HCG and then say!
4.When should I suspect ectopic pregnancy?
The typical clinical signs of ectopic pregnancy are: menopause, abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding! However, early ectopic pregnancy, like early normal intrauterine pregnancy, is undetectable at the site of pregnancy and can have no symptoms. Therefore, ectopic pregnancy can also be without menopause, abdominal pain or vaginal bleeding!
Do you know what is meant by “tangled ectopic pregnancy”? If you don’t know, check out my historical articles on my public website! If you read it, you won’t have to struggle!
Why is ectopic pregnancy not so easy to die?
The reason is that people die from ectopic pregnancy often die from ignorance, ignorance of ectopic pregnancy, or the ectopic pregnancy is so oddly conceived that the doctor is ignorant and cannot recognize it, and runs into the wrong department (for example, the aforementioned case of liver pregnancy that was successfully treated on the Internet recently). Reviewing the cases of accidental deaths due to ectopic pregnancy, it is often the case that the patients themselves lack knowledge of the concept of ectopic pregnancy, they never even know that there is such a thing as “ectopic pregnancy”, and they are often found in shock and fainting, and by the time they are seen, they may have already lost their lives! When I look back at the clinical cases of women who present to the hospital in hemorrhagic shock, they are often women who did not even consider that they might be pregnant, or who have mistaken abnormal vaginal bleeding for menstruation.
I was impressed by a couple of girls who were still in high school and were taken to the hospital with fainting spells and found to be in hemorrhagic shock from a ruptured ectopic pregnancy! One of them fainted playing a game in an internet cafe and was brought in by the internet manager!
6.Since you have begun to suspect ectopic pregnancy, there is nothing to obsess or worry about!
We often encounter patients with ectopic pregnancy who are “tangled” and have various worries.
(1) They are worried that the ectopic pregnancy will cause haemorrhage and death. In the case of various types of ectopic pregnancy (including tubal pregnancy, ovarian pregnancy, abdominal pregnancy, etc.), intra-abdominal bleeding must precede death, and intra-abdominal bleeding must be followed by abdominal pain. I don’t believe that a person who is of normal intelligence and knows that she may have an ectopic pregnancy is still stupid enough not to know to go to the hospital for a checkup when she already has stomach pain!
(2) Fear of ectopic pregnancy affecting future fertility. People always want to do something about the possible future unfavorable outcome, thinking they can make up for it. I had to lay bare the cold and harsh reality for all to see. In the case of tubal pregnancy, the most common reason why tubal pregnancy occurs is that the tubes themselves are not open. Even if the tubal pregnancy was caused by pure chance (the tubes themselves were fine before the ectopic pregnancy was conceived), now that the tubal pregnancy has occurred, the quality of the tubes is also greatly diminished.
The quality of the fallopian tube will not be very good even if it is already a tubal pregnancy, so it is a matter of chance whether you will be able to conceive or not and whether you will have another ectopic pregnancy.
(3) How to solve this problem, conservative? Surgery? To keep or not to keep the fallopian tube? These are also nagging and worrying questions. For those ectopic pregnancies that are found to be a direct manifestation of hemorrhagic shock, there is no room to dwell on this matter. You say you have the opportunity to be upset, so what is there for you not to be satisfied? You can’t die, and you still have a choice of treatment, what a great result!
7. Ectopic pregnancy doesn’t mean you can’t have children again!
It is true that after a tubal pregnancy, the probability of having another tubal pregnancy has increased, but as long as the pelvic cavity is in good condition and the texture of the fallopian tubes is okay, as long as one of the fallopian tubes is functional, it is possible to get pregnant and have children naturally. It is not uncommon for women who have had their tubes removed once due to ectopic pregnancy to have another intrauterine pregnancy, and some really don’t want to have one, but are still pregnant and come to have an abortion. If both fallopian tubes are in bad condition, they are not so lucky, but there is no need to despair, as long as the ovarian function is good, the success rate of IVF for this type of women is still quite high.
Some people die of illness, others die of fright; and we don’t want to be the one who is frightened of illness but not yet dead, but the one who is not frightened!