Suffice threatening complication is the development of pregnancy outside the uterus (ectopic or ectopic pregnancy). This pathology can cause death of the mother, so its timely detection helps to preserve the health and lives of women. In this regard, substantial assistance has urine test. Does the test is an ectopic pregnancy? Of course, yes.

A positive test during an ectopic pregnancy

Urinary test reveals a woman's pregnancy. The study is based on a reaction by reaction of the chemical reagent with the hormone hCG. This occurs only when a pregnancy. Pregnancy can have a normal location in the uterus or ectopic located, that is, outside and this form refers to a pathological state.

Diagnostic test systems make it possible to establish the fact of pregnancy at any of its locations. If the pregnancy starts to develop outside the uterus, the body will still produce the hormone HCG as in the form of a masterbatch, so if ectopic pregnancy test will be positive. The complexity of the assessment of the results is that the urine test confirms or excludes the pregnancy, but provides no information about its location. It may already be set after the doctor objective bimanual examination woman on a chair or using a diagnostic method of ultrasound scanning.

Diagnostic value of urinary test

Status of ectopic pregnancy Ectopic pregnancy - to keep the baby can not be?   It refers to emergency (or urgent) in gynecological practice. With timely diagnosis can take certain medical interventions that will help to keep the reproductive capacity of women. We are talking about the possibility of endoscopic techniques to preserve woman's fallopian tubes if it happened the implantation of the egg.

The latest achievement was the development of this type of urinary test, the accuracy of which reaches 85% in the diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy (INEXSCREEN test). It relates to a tablet and the mean test procedure is based on immunochromatographic assay. Only this kind of test allows you to capture the shape of the pregnancy hormone, which changes when the ectopic pregnancy.

The hormone hCG is composed of two isoforms (or subunits). If ectopic pregnancy is a decrease in the content of the modified isoform (less than 10%), which will be a diagnostic criterion of having the disease. Color test varies depending on the content of a specific isoform. Each plate consists of two diagnostic windows:

• A window appears intact form of human chorionic gonadotropin;
• The window displays a modified isoform hormone.

On technology test is simple, the ability to spend it at home. There will be no quantitative analysis results, will only change the color intensity of the strips.

You can not assume that the test can indicate the presence of abnormal pregnancy in absolutely all cases, it does not give 100% results. Errors in the study are possible, so if a woman makes the test at home, she should see a doctor even if a negative result. It is better to carry out urine test under medical supervision and often it occurs in a hospital, when a woman is hospitalized to exclude ectopic pregnancy.

It is important not to overdo the test of time, as there can be a false coloring. The maximum time of the study - ten minutes. There is another point that needs to know a woman if she has acquired urinary test. It can not be done without a delay. There must be a delay menstruation for at least another two weeks, then it makes sense to do the test tablet.

Marina Solovyov

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