Unfortunately, fifteen out of a hundred women who are carrying a baby, at the first carrying out of ultrasound, hear a disappointing diagnosis of anembryonia, often called a frozen pregnancy.
Signs of anembryonia
Anembrionia is indeed considered a type of an undeveloped or frozen pregnancy, the symptom of which is the absence of an embryo in a fetal egg. This occurs when the human embryo is not formed at all or stopped developing on a short term. Sometimes there are diagnostic errors, because the fetus at the time of ultrasound may be too small to detect it. Therefore, such a diagnosis should be rechecked after a while to avoid possible errors.
Causes of anembryonia
In most cases anembrion occurs due to genetic disorders, when the wrong chromosomal set was laid down initially. Another common cause of frozen pregnancy is an unsuccessful combination of parents' genes. Pregnancy based on the fusion of a healthy egg and a pathological sperm or vice versa is doomed.
Other causes of anembrion development may include:
- acute bacterial or viral infections, suffered at the very beginning of pregnancy. Dangerous in that they affect the embryo or lead to destructive embryonic processes due to a significant increase in body temperature;
- The effect of toxic substances or radiation on the stage of fetal formation.
- disorders of the hormonal background in the female body;
- the presence of bad habits: dependence on alcohol, smoking or drug use.
However, the reasons for the formation of anembrionia are not fully understood. Even in absolutely healthy young women, situations of a similar pathological pregnancy arise.
Symptoms of anembrion
In the vast majority of cases, anembrion has no symptoms. Pregnancy proceeds according to the usual scenario:
- hgch with anembrion grows as it should, because the fetal egg along with the circumferential tissues continues to grow, albeit without an embryo;
- mammary glands swell;
- with anembrion, toxicosis is observed;
- the uterus increases.
It is worth noting that the basal temperature with anembrion will be normal, it is possible to determine the absence of an embryo only by means of ultrasound. Sometimes a female body rejects anembrional pregnancy and spontaneous miscarriage occurs, but this happens