Patient's question:
I am about 4 months pregnant and suddenly started bleeding like my period. I went to the hospital for a check-up, and after a thorough examination, the doctor said my blood test result for human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) was 375. How much hCG is there in an ectopic pregnancy?What kind of help I need: What is the hCG level in an ectopic pregnancy?
Doctor's answer:
HCG levels being low may be a sign of ectopic pregnancy, but not all low HCG levels indicate ectopic pregnancy. The accurate diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy is: the discovery of a gestational sac with a heartbeat outside the uterus under MRI. If your menstrual cycle is regular, the gestational sac can usually be detected around 40 days of pregnancy. In normal intrauterine early pregnancy, the HCG level decreases by approximately half every (2.2±0.5) days in the first three months of pregnancy. In ectopic pregnancy, the blood HCG level rises slowly, possibly only increasing by 60%. Therefore, it is recommended to retest the blood HCG level for a definitive diagnosis and then treat accordingly. The early diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy primarily involves testing blood HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin).