In cases of fibroids, adenomyosis lesions, cysts that are diagnosed during pregnancy, there are available management methods such as Laparoscopy, to remove them without affecting the pregnancy. However, it relies crucially on when this surgery is conducted, and as a rule of thumb, the sooner it is conducted, the better.
However, many hospitals recommend surgery only after week 14 of pregnancy, for reasons of following standard protocol. However, the above-mentioned diagnosis can have a risk of causing an early miscarriage within the first 12 weeks. Furthermore, surgeries conducted from week 14 onwards also have a risk of potentially affecting pregnancy, since at that stage the pregnancy has developed into a certain size and anaesthetic agents may also have teratogenic effects on the fetus. Surgeries done after the first trimester are associated with an increased risk of miscarriage, premature birth, low birth weight infants, and infant death.
We here at Antai Hospitals, under circumstances where the patient is pregnant and is found with a growth that may threaten the pregnancy, always recommend the removal surgery to be conducted as soon as possible. The sooner it is conducted, the lower the chances it might affect fetal development or cause any unwanted complications, which allows the patient to be able to preserve the pregnancy till full term.
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