The 33-year-old woman was shocked when physicians found a pregnancy growing in a really unusual anatomical area when she went to the hospital....CONTINUE READING
An ectopic pregnancy is an uncommon event in which a fertilized egg implants itself somewhere other than the main cavity of the uterus. It was allegedly an incredibly rare instance of this.
Women may have symptoms such as vaginal bleeding and pelvic and abdominal pain, which get worse as the fetus grows in an unwelcome place.
The unnamed patient went to the doctor to discuss her unusually long menstrual bleeding, according to pediatrician Dr. Michael.
Dr. Michael added that the woman had been having menstrual bleeding for 14 days nonstop, saying, “I thought I had seen it all.
Additionally, “49 days since her last menstrual period” had passed. Later, a sonogram showed the startling cause of her illness. “A baby is what they find in the liver,”
pointed to a screenshot of the fetus and explained. The medical professional pointed out how the fertilized eggs frequently end up getting caught in the fallopian tube in a typical ectopic pregnancy.
According to statistics, ectopic pregnancies occur roughly one in fifty times in the United States. They hardly ever move from the ovary pass to the abdominal wall, though.
In the 35 years prior to November 1999, just 14 of these cases were reported internationally, according to a paper in Intractable and Rare Diseases Research.
The doctor was shocked to learn that this woman’s case was even rarer than the previously reported incidences because her embryo ended up migrating up to the liver where they implanted.
“We occasionally observe them in the tummy, but never in the liver. According to The Post, Dr. Michael, who works for the Children’s Hospital Research Institute, acknowledged that this was a first for him…CONTINUE READING>>
