How to check for early ectopic pregnancy?

An ectopic pregnancy is the same as a normal pregnancy, with the same amenorrhea and nausea, but an ectopic pregnancy does not lead to normal childbirth. It is a pathological condition that seriously threatens the health and life of women. How to detect early ectopic pregnancy? This must be the question in many people's minds. Well, let us introduce it to you in detail below, and hope it will be helpful to you.

It can usually be diagnosed around 40 days of pregnancy. Once a woman finds irregular vaginal bleeding accompanied by abdominal pain, she should be alert to whether it is an ectopic pregnancy. The patient should go to the hospital for treatment in time to avoid greater harm to the health of women.

Ectopic pregnancy can be diagnosed by:

Posterior fornix puncture: Since blood in the abdominal cavity is most likely to accumulate in the rectouterine pouch, even if the amount of blood is not large, it can be sucked out through the posterior fornix puncture. Use an 18-gauge long needle to pierce the posterior fornix of the vagina into the rectouterine pouch and draw out dark red non-coagulated blood. This is a positive result, indicating the presence of intra-abdominal blood.

Endometrial pathological examination: Diagnostic curettage is only suitable for patients with heavy vaginal bleeding. Its purpose is to exclude intrauterine pregnancy. Uterine discharge should be routinely sent for pathological examination. If villi are seen in the section, intrauterine pregnancy can be diagnosed. If only decidua is seen without villi, although ectopic pregnancy should be considered, it cannot be confirmed.

Ultrasound diagnosis: In the early stage of tubal pregnancy, B-ultrasound imaging shows an enlarged uterus, but the uterine cavity is empty and there is a low-echo area next to the uterus. This image is not the acoustic characteristic of tubal pregnancy, and the possibility of early intrauterine pregnancy with corpus luteum of pregnancy must be ruled out. Ultrasound detection of the gestational sac and fetal heart rate is very important for the diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy. If the pregnancy is located outside the uterus, it can be diagnosed as an ectopic pregnancy; if the gestational sac is located inside the uterus, ectopic pregnancy can be ruled out. B-ultrasound has important clinical significance for early diagnosis of interstitial pregnancy, as it can show protrusion of one uterine horn and obvious gestational sac within the local myometrial thickening.

How to check for early ectopic pregnancy? Is the above helpful to you? An ectopic pregnancy can be simply understood as a pregnancy that does not occur in the uterus. Normal pregnancy should develop normally in the uterus. An ectopic pregnancy may be caused by blockage of the fallopian tubes or inflammation in the uterus, pelvis, or adnexa, which causes the sperm and egg to combine outside the fallopian tube. Ectopic pregnancy is very harmful and we must detect it in time.