Student Pan, who hasnât left yet, exclaimed at Student Xieâs prowess.
The patient was sent back to the emergency department. After all other test results were available, the doctor reviewed all the reports to determine the treatment plan.
However, this ultrasound result is unlikely to be incorrect. Taking the report from the nurseâs hand, Doctor Anâs face appeared somewhat serious: a molar pregnancy requires a prompt suction curettage. The surgery requires a family memberâs signature.
But this patient is a bit troublesome. Doctor An tapped on the report.
When Sister Weng heard the nurse saying her husband and mother-in-law had arrived, she picked up the blanket wanting to bury herself.
Doctor An walked over to push the patient and explained the situation: "Your condition requires surgery. You canât delay any longer; if the bleeding gets worse, you could die, and thereâs also a fear of malignant transformation."
Sister Weng was scared stiff by the mention of cancer. Dr. Xieâs diagnosis was correct; itâs not only ectopic pregnancies that are frightening.
"Your family is outside. I can go and tell them you need surgery. Is that okay? Of course, I promised not to discuss your privacy with others," Doctor An said. At this moment, the doctor could only do their best to gain the patientâs trust, only to save a life.
"Go ahead," Sister Weng poked her head out from the blanket and asked the doctor again, "Can this happen in normal marital relations?"
"This molar pregnancy, medically speaking, doesnât have a specific cause. It might also be related to your recent physical exhaustion," Doctor An said. When doctors must be truthful and scientific, the issues of a womanâs pregnancy basically have nothing to do with which man it is.
Upon hearing this, Sister Weng sighed in relief and expressed to the doctor that they could approach her family.
Doctor An went out to meet Mother Lv and Mr. Lv.
"What is a molar pregnancy?" Mother Lv, hearing this term for the first time, asked the doctor about it.
Simply put, a molar pregnancy can be described as what ancient people referred to as a "monster fetus." Its biggest characteristic is the absence of a fetal heartbeat, meaning itâs not life. Itâs not a child nurtured from a fertilized egg but a "monster" formed by abnormal proliferation of placental cells after a womanâs pregnancy.
How strange is it? When it is extracted from the patientâs uterus, it appears as a cluster of bubbles like grapes, hence the name molar pregnancy. This is why Xie Wanying previously asked the patient if there were other things in the discharged menstrual blood. If there are things that look like bubbles, ten out of nine times, itâs a molar pregnancy.
A molar pregnancy can directly kill a normal fetus within the same uterus; it is extremely rare for a fetus to survive after a molar pregnancy is diagnosed clinically. A molar pregnancy should be immediately cleared, as Doctor An said, due to fears of malignant transformation.
Fortunately, the current patientâs molar pregnancy is not yet large enough to prevent an abortion; suction curettage can be performed.
After hearing the doctorâs description, Mother Lv and Mr. Lvâs faces drastically changed. They couldnât understand how Sister Weng suddenly became pregnant with a "monster."
Mother Lv pulled her son aside and whispered, "Sheâs been with another man outside."
Mr. Lv said, "Impossible."
Compared to his own mother, Mr. Lv trusted that his wife wouldnât do such things.
"You just donât know," Mother Lv was about to be angered by her son, saying, "Youâre busy with business outside; what do you know? She often sneaks out alone behind your back, without even bringing the child. Iâm the one taking care of the child. Tell me, can you let her give birth to a monster? Isnât this something that the man outside let her conceive? I advise you, donât acknowledge it. Otherwise, if word gets out, people will say youâre impotent for letting a woman bear a monster fetus."