Re: Does metotraxate caused me an anembryonic pregnancy?
From: Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 29 Apr 2001 10:20:06 -0500 (CDT)
Sounds like you had a blighted ovum and ovarian cyst to begin with which
caused your doctor to believe you had an ectopic pregnancy. The MTX
probably had no effect at all.
Hope this helps and write back anytime for more information.
HSM
At Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Ana wrote:
>
>My doctor told me I had an eutopic pregnancy. He gave me a dosis of
>metotraxate (quimiotherapic treatment) in order to drop the embryo and
>avoid a laparoscopy. After some days, the beta-hcg was still high
>around 5000, so he decided to make me a laparoscopy. Unfortunately, he
>found a quist instead of an embryo. Next day he found through the
>ecography that there was a sac inside my uterus but aparently with no
>embryo inside. The day after tomorrow, I will have an aspiration to
>take the trophoblast (sac).I am very confused after this story, I would
>like to know if the reason why there was no embryo inside the sac
>(Blighted ovum) was because of the dosis of metotraxate?
--
Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. FACOG, FACS
Great Neck, New York
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