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Ectopic pregnancy is a complication of pregnancy in which the embryo attaches outside the uterus. [5] Signs and symptoms classically include abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding, but fewer than 50 percent of affected women have both of these symptoms. [1]
Sonography can demonstrate that the pregnancy is outside an empty uterus, there is reduced to no amniotic fluid between the placenta and the fetus, no uterine wall surrounding the fetus, fetal parts are close to the abdominal wall, the fetus has an abnormal lie, the placenta looks abnormal and there is free fluid in the abdomen.
Fetal viability is the ability of a human fetus to survive outside the uterus. Viability depends upon factors such as birth weight , gestational age, and the availability of advanced medical care . In low-income countries , more than 90% of extremely preterm newborns (less than 28 weeks gestational age ) die due to a lack of said medical care ...
Surgeons retrieved a calcified 32 weeks fetus from the abdominal cavity; the ovaries and uterus were intact and the patient had her period regularly. [29] Unknown (32) Santa Clara, Waspam, Nicaragua 2010 2011 (35 weeks) Patient in her third pregnancy. Was hospitalized because she did not feel fetal movement anymore. [30] Antamma (70)
When the fetus was 29 weeks along, her doctors performed a laparotomy, an abdominal surgery, to remove the fetus before it presented too high a risk of the woman bleeding out or the fetus dying.
The third trimester is defined as starting, between the beginning of week 28 (27 weeks + 0 days of GA) [37] or beginning of week 29 (28 weeks + 0 days of GA). [4] It lasts until childbirth . Timeline of pregnancy, including (from top to bottom): Trimesters, embryo/fetus development, gestational age in weeks and months, viability and maturity stages
The picture attracted a lot of attention when it was released, as it was used by opponents of abortion who asserted that the baby reached through the womb and grabbed the doctor's hand, thus showing signs of life at the 21st week of pregnancy. Indeed, the photograph and many of the texts which often accompany it seem to support this view ...
At 5 weeks, the embryo is a mass of cells with a developing neural tube (pre-spinal cord and brain). The forming fetus is no larger than a grain of rice.” Pregnancy tissue after an abortion at 5 ...