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    This document discusses factors that can predispose or precipitate an ectopic pregnancy, where a fertilized egg implants outside the uterus, usually in a fallopian tube. Predisposing factors include lifestyle habits like smoking, age under 18 or over 35, and race. Precipitating factors include a history of pelvic inflammatory disease, endometriosis, previous tubal surgery, or improvements in PID treatment that prevent total blockage of the tubes. An ectopic pregnancy most commonly occurs when a fertilized egg implants in the fallopian tube and causes the tube to rupture as the embryo grows. Rupture can lead to hemorrhaging, shock, and potentially death if not treated.

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    This document discusses factors that can predispose or precipitate an ectopic pregnancy, where a fertilized egg implants outside the uterus, usually in a fallopian tube. Predisposing factors include lifestyle habits like smoking, age under 18 or over 35, and race. Precipitating factors include a history of pelvic inflammatory disease, endometriosis, previous tubal surgery, or improvements in PID treatment that prevent total blockage of the tubes. An ectopic pregnancy most commonly occurs when a fertilized egg implants in the fallopian tube and causes the tube to rupture as the embryo grows. Rupture can lead to hemorrhaging, shock, and potentially death if not treated.

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    This document discusses factors that can predispose or precipitate an ectopic pregnancy, where a fertilized egg implants outside the uterus, usually in a fallopian tube. Predisposing factors include lifestyle habits like smoking, age under 18 or over 35, and race. Precipitating factors include a history of pelvic inflammatory disease, endometriosis, previous tubal surgery, or improvements in PID treatment that prevent total blockage of the tubes. An ectopic pregnancy most commonly occurs when a fertilized egg implants in the fallopian tube and causes the tube to rupture as the embryo grows. Rupture can lead to hemorrhaging, shock, and potentially death if not treated.

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    Pa Tho Physiology of Ectopic Pregnancy

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    This document discusses factors that can predispose or precipitate an ectopic pregnancy, where a fertilized egg implants outside the uterus, usually in a fallopian tube. Predisposing factors include lifestyle habits like smoking, age under 18 or over 35, and race. Precipitating factors include a history of pelvic inflammatory disease, endometriosis, previous tubal surgery, or improvements in PID treatment that prevent total blockage of the tubes. An ectopic pregnancy most commonly occurs when a fertilized egg implants in the fallopian tube and causes the tube to rupture as the embryo grows. Rupture can lead to hemorrhaging, shock, and potentially death if not treated.

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    PREDISPOSING FACTORS PRECIPITATING FACTORS

    • LIFESTYLE (smoking) • STRUCTURAL FACTORS


    • AGE (below 18 and above 35 years old) • HISTORY OF PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE
    • RACE (blacks) • ENDOMETRIOSIS
    • PREVIOUS TUBAL SURGERY
    • UTERINE CURETAGE
    • RENAL DISEASE OR TRANSPLANT
    • IMPROVED TREATMENT FOR PID (prevents
    total blockage of tubes but may cause partial
    blockage)
    • SURGICAL CORRECTIONS OF FALLOPIAN TUBE
    OCCLUSIONS
    • ELECTIVE STERILIZATION BEING REVERSED AT
    LATER DATE

    Fertilized ovum implants outside


    the uterus LEGEND:

    ABDOMINAL ECTOPIC CERVICAL ECTOPIC - MATERNAL


    PREGNANCY TUBAL PREGNANCY (rare) SIGNS AND
    ECTOPIC SYMPTOMS
    PREGNANCY
    There is already tubal (most fertilized ovum
    rupture thus fertilized bypasses the uterine
    ovum goes outside from endometrium
    the fallopian tube
    Attachment to Implantation at
    some the cervical
    abdominal mucus
    structure (liver, Painless bleeding
    spleen, begin shortly after
    intestines, implantation
    ovaries, broad
    blastocyst burrows into the epithelium of the BEFORE RUPTURE:
    tubal wall (usually in the distal/ampullary two - Abdominal pain
    - Amenorrhea
    thirds of the fallopian tube) - Abdominal vaginal bleeding
    - Absence of common signs of
    tapping of blood vessels in the pregnancy
    - Abdominal tenderness
    tube
    - Palpable pelvic mass

    There is a decreased decreased blood pressure is There is limited decidual


    resistance to the muscle mass much higher in the reaction; therefore
    invading trophoblastic lining the tubal arteries than human chorionic
    tissue by the fallopian fallopian in the uterine gonadotropin (hCG) is
    tube tubes arteries (where it is decreased and the signs
    greatly limited) and symptoms of
    pregnancy are limited.
    DURING RUPTURE:
    - Exacerbation of pain
    abortion, spontaneous regression, or rupture
    (depends on gestational age and location of AFTER RUPTURE:
    implantation) - Faintness/ dizziness
    - Abdominal pain
    - Referred shoulder
    pain
    EMBRYONIC DEATH Maternal
    - Signs of shock (due
    hemorrhage to severity of

    MATERNAL DEATH

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