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Re: 15 week etpoic pregnancy

From: M. Kelly Shanahan, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 3 Feb 2001 00:54:41 -0600 (CST)

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At Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Betty wrote: >
>I have a question about a friend who recently had surgery to remove an
>etopic pregnacy. She was first told in December after some heavy
>bledding that she had a miscarriage. A month later she was experiancing
>some pain and they told her that she was indeed still pregnant than 15
>weeks. After doing a sonogram that saw the baby and estimated 15 weeks,
>and told her that she had two uterus! Two days later she compalined of
>pain and went to the hospital after conducting a MRI! (?)She was told
>that she did not have two uterus and that what was wrong is that she had
>a 15 week etopic prgnancy that appeared as a uterus because the ovary
>had grown so big. They did an emergancy surgery and removed the ovary
>and the child. I can not understand how a pregnancy carried on till 15
>weeks and how it survived this long. My friend and her husband were
>able to see the baby when it was removed and they said it was developing
>noramlly and it was a boy. This is the wieredst thing I have evr heard.
>How was this possiable? Doctor told her that he had never seen a
>prgnancy go on this long in this manner. Can you help explain some of
>this ? Bye this way the Netherlands.
>
>Thanks,
>b.vanhethof

this is unusual. IF it were an ovarian pregnancy, as opposed to one in hte tubes, it could develop longer -- there have been cases of abdominal pregnancies being discovered at teh time of a cesarean section fro failure to dilate!

-- M. Kelly Shanahan, MD, FACOG S. Lake Tahoe, CA

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