Woman carries foetus inside liver in 'exceptionally rare' ectopic pregnancy case

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In bizarre news, a 33-year-old Canadian woman found there was a foetus growing inside of her liver. The news was revealed by the doctor, who diagnosed the strange condition. Talking about this rare medical case, Dr Michael Narvey, paediatrician at Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba in Canada uploaded a video on social media site TikTok.

According to NDTV, Dr Narvey said, "I thought I had seen it all: a 33-year-old woman comes in with a 14-day history of menstrual bleeding and 49 days since her last menstrual period. "On examination, what the doctor found was an ectopic pregnancy in the woman's liver, reported The Sun.

This kind of pregnancy is 'exceptionally rare' according to the National Centre for Biotechnology Information. An ectopic pregnancy occurs when the fertilised egg, instead of getting implanted in the uterine cavity, gets stuck somewhere else. Only 14 cases of ectopic pregnancies in the liver had been reported in the world between 1964 and 1999.

Dr Narvey added, "We see these sometimes in the abdomen but never in the liver. This is a first for me." The woman's life was saved by the surgeons by surgically removing the foetus but unfortunately, the foetus couldn't be saved.

According to the Daily Mail, He also explained how a normal pregnancy occurs and said that the typical ectopic pregnancy occurs in the fallopian tubes. He added, "It's possible, though, that if the egg and sperm unite and then travel the other way (in the fallopian tube), out the way of the ovary, they can implant in the peritoneum (tissue lining the abdomen)." But, for the Canadian woman, the egg and sperm "wound up travelling up to the liver where they implanted there."

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