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Entry: Ectopic Pregnancy - A50587194
Author: Alex Tufty Ashman [!] - U566116


Another entry with 28th April 2009 on it

(Please ignore the accidental submission to the Update Forum )

Alex

Good entry Alex

Nitpicks:
<> = increases the risk of an ectopic pregnancy?

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should be either:
sixth to tenth
or
6th to 10th

Well done

GB

I've made those changes.

Any more comments on this one?

This is a good addition to the EG, Alex, and possibly too specialist a topic for the reviewers, but it deserves recommending because I understood it, and I'm not a medical person

Interesting article.

I have a question. In the first part you say:
'It is, however, known that women who become pregnant following oral contraceptive use, fertility treatment or sterilisation are more likely to have an ectopic pregnancy.'

Do you mean that women using those contraceptive devices who become pregnant are more likely than not to have an ectopic pregnancy? Or do you mean that out of all the women who experience an ectopic pregnancy, the majority will have been using some sort of contraception?

In the second part - I guess the technical term is 'tubal abortion' - but you mean something that happens without medical intervention? Because, and it could just be me, I understand 'abortion' to mean that it is intended, however provoked.

Fascinating entry, though. Thanks.

<> when I suffered a miscarriage in 1982 I was most distressed to read "spontaneous abortion" on the letter the hospital gave me for my GP. I had to ask, that they didn't think I'd done anything to provoke the loss of the baby and was told it was the correct medical term. So abortion to me means removal of foetus - by nature or medical intervention.

"the majority will have been using some sort of contraception"
I don't quite see how you could infer this from the sentence, but I've changed it to try and make it clearer.

I've made those changes

thanks Alex

GB - it's not that I didn't know about spontaneous abortion (having suffered one myself ) it's just that it's not often used among lay-persons to refer to something like this. At least - that's how I see it. Of course if I'm a minority, I'm happy to be corrected.

Is there a doctor in the house? In years to come I can see you being h2g2’s resident doctor This Entry takes us to the heart of what it is that you are passionate about and thus makes for a great read.

"I can see you being h2g2’s resident doctor"

Don't write Z off just yet...

Thanks for clarifying, Alex, but the footnote is missing a word:

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This refers to the spontaneous ending of an ectopic pregnancy, and is not to be confused with the common usage of the (term/word) abortion, which refers to the intentional termination of a pregnancy.

Done

' Lithopaedia may remain unnoticed for many years, and are a staple of disreputable novelists.'

I wondered wehether an example of such a novel/novelist could be included

... also perhaps some well-known personalities who've suffered an EP, e.g. Countess of Wessex

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I disagree with that comment

It wasn't a comment. Just a suggestion/idea, which I am quite happy to take or leave

Well I hope Alex doesn't add specific women who this has happened to, which seems a gross invasion of privacy to me.

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