Patient's question:
After ectopic pregnancy surgery, a follow-up ultrasound revealed 1.4 cm of pelvic effusion. I asked the doctor, and they said it's nothing to worry about. Is this a normal phenomenon? Does it require treatment?Doctor's answer:
Postoperative infection may occur. Postoperative infection often happens within two weeks after surgery, which can be directly caused by surgical procedures or result from postoperative patients neglecting hygiene, such as sexual activity or swimming. It generally leads to acute pelvic inflammatory disease, characterized by severe abdominal pain that is persistent and can worsen intermittently, accompanied by fever, chills, vaginal bleeding with bright red, foul-smelling discharge, or mixed with yellowish secretions. Abnormal fallopian tube development, such as prolonged fallopian tubes, poor muscle layer development, absence of cilia in the mucosa, double fallopian tubes, or additional fimbriae, can all be causes of ectopic pregnancy.