Patient's question:
I just got pregnant for two weeks and am worried it might be an ectopic pregnancy. I want to ask how long into the pregnancy can I get a thorough check to see if it is an ectopic pregnancy?Doctor's answer:
The main clinical manifestations of ectopic pregnancy are vaginal bleeding and abdominal pain. You have just been pregnant for two weeks. If there is no obvious abdominal pain or vaginal bleeding, you don't need to go to the hospital for a thorough examination so early, because the embryo is still too small and generally cannot be detected. Wait until around 40 days of pregnancy to go to the hospital for an ultrasound examination to understand whether there is a gestational sac inside the uterine cavity. If no gestational sac is found in the uterine cavity but a gestational sac is found in an extracavitary location, it proves that it is an ectopic pregnancy.