Molar pregnancy is the result of a genetic error that appears during the fertilization process, which leads to abnormal tissue increase at the level of the uterus. Rarely, molar pregnancy involves the development of an embryo and the growing of this tissue is quicker than it is in the case of a normal pregnancy. There are two types of molar pregnancy: partial and complete.
Complete molar pregnancy has just two parts of placenta (there is no baby), which appear when the sperm fertilize an empty ovum (the baby cannot be formed because the ovum is empty). The placenta grows and produces the pregnancy hormone hCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin). An echography shows that there is just the placenta, without a baby.
Partial molar pregnancy appears when the compound contains, beside the abnormal cells, an embryo with severe defects. In this case the foetus will be very soon defeated by the abnormal compound, which is growing very fast. A rare form of partial molar pregnancy appears when twins are conceived, but just one of the embryos develops normally and the other one becomes a molar pregnancy. In this case, the healthy embryo will be consumed, in time, by the abnormal growing.
Risks of molar pregnancy appear at women who are over 40 years, at women who already had a molar pregnancy or the ones who had a miscarriage. Symptoms of molar pregnancy: vaginal bleedings, sensation of nausea and eructation, development of some rare complications of the thyroid gland. As well, the early pre-eclampsia, the high-level of hCG hormone and the absence of the cardiac rhythm of the baby and his/her movements, can represent signs of molar pregnancy.
The diagnostic in case of molar pregnancy can be done by a pelvic gynecologic examination, which can relieve an increased or decreased uterus, increased ovary and abnormal high level of the pregnancy hormone hCG. Most of the molar pregnancies will spontaneous end and the tissue will be eliminated. A molar pregnancy can be removed by surgery operation, dilation and evacuation or, sometimes, it can be eliminated by a medicamentary treatment.
Almost 90% of women who had a molar pregnancy did not need a treatment after the removal of the pregnancy. There will be done some procedures in which it will be followed the pregnancy hormone’s level, these procedures can be done once a month, during 6 months, depending on the doctor’s recommendation. This observation procedure has the purpose to assure that the molar pregnancy has been completely eliminated, because some prints of molar pregnancy may reappear and may involve a cancer risk for the other parts of the organism.
You should avoid getting pregnant during a year after the elimination of the molar pregnancy. You may use all the contraceptive methods, except the intrauterine devices.
Even if the elimination of a molar pregnancy does not represent an interruption of the development of the foetus (like in the case of normal pregnancy interruption), it can still be considered a loss. Even if the embryo exists, it does not have the chance to grow and develop into a foetus. Most of women discover that they have a molar pregnancy after they discovered that they are pregnant. Dreams, plans and hopes are all destroyed in a minute, so is a significant loss.