Symptoms of ovum

The article was professionally consulted with Master, Doctor Nguyen Van Thanh - Obstetrician and Gynecologist - Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology - Vinmec Nha Trang International General Hospital.

Ovarian disease is usually benign, but in some cases, ovum pregnancy can lead to scary complications such as invasive ovum or trophoblastic cancer.

Normally, after the sperm fuses with the ovum, it becomes a fertilized egg, which develops into the fetus and its appendages such as the placenta and amniotic sac. In some cases, the trophoblastic cells grow too quickly while the connective tissue and capillaries of the umbilical blood vessels in the placenta do not develop in time, leading to degeneration of the placenta.
The edematous spines form fluid-filled sacs that stick together like bunches of grapes and occupy most of the uterine cavity. This phenomenon is called oviposition. The egg can develop into a mass with no embryo (partial oocyte) or with an abnormal embryo (partial ovum).

Pregnant women often experience the following basic symptoms:
Bleeding: is the most common symptom, occurring a few weeks after a missed period, or occurring from the 6th - 16th week of pregnancy. Vaginal blood can be little or a lot, usually thin blood, dark bruises, sometimes bright red and bleeding for many days.

Severe morning sickness: the patient has a lot of vomiting and lasts a long time, the body is tired, pale, sometimes edematous. In the early stages of pregnancy, this symptom can be misdiagnosed as threatened miscarriage. Pain and heaviness in the lower abdomen. Hypertension, proteinuria. About 50% of cases have the uterus enlarges faster than the gestational age, the rest of the uterus develops normally or is smaller than the gestational age due to the regression of the ovum. In the middle of pregnancy: palpation is not visible, fetal heartbeat is not heard. In cases of total ovum, anemia is evident, most of which is iron deficiency anemia, accounting for 54%. Due to blood loss, pregnant women have symptoms of fatigue, pallor, pale mucous membranes and dizziness. 27% of pregnant women have symptoms of preeclampsia. Hyperthyroidism: anxiety, fatigue, fast or irregular heartbeat, sweating, and shaking hands. On the other hand, signs of egg pregnancy are quite diverse, easy to be confused with some other obstetric and gynecological diseases such as stillbirth, ectopic pregnancy, uterine fibroids,... Therefore, to diagnose the disease in a way Exactly, the patient needs to visit an obstetrician, do some tests such as abdominal ultrasound, beta HCG test, blood estrogen, blood count, abdominal X-ray,...

If not treated early, pregnancy can lead to many dangerous complications such as blood loss, malnutrition or miscarriage causing bleeding.
In addition, the oocyte can also invade, penetrate deeply into the uterine muscle layer and cause uterine perforation. In particular, about 10 - 30% of pregnancies that can cause malignant complications is trophoblastic cancer (a type of malignant cancer, often invading deeply into the uterine muscle layer, causing necrosis, bleeding, and cystic fibrosis). can metastasize to visceral organs such as liver, brain, lung, ... with a very high mortality rate).

Therefore, early detection of pregnancy symptoms and timely and effective treatment of the disease as prescribed by the doctor will help patients to preserve their health and fertility.