Does it affect your future pregnancy?
The major consequences of having ectopic pregnancy are
- Infertility due to damage to the tube
- Recurrent ectopic
- Rupture of uterus in cases of cornual pregnancy
- Psychological consequences or fear of pregnancy
Diagnosis
Your doctor relies on a sensitive pregnancy test and ultrasonography for the diagnosis of this condition. Absence of pregnancy inside the uterus with a positive pregnancy test will raise the suspicion. Consequently, she will advise a serum beta HCG test to confirm.
The diagnostic features of this condition are
- Absence of doubling of HCG in blood in 48hrs
- No sac in ultrasonography
- Presence of mass in USG
- Low concentration of Blood HCG