Risks and Complications of Induced Abortion

Sometimes, when you think that you risk getting pregnant, you banish fear with the thought that there is a solution to this problem. You will not close the door and you will not be put in a situation of no return to have a child that you do not want. Sure, you can do an abortion.

But before you think this reason is not necessary to protect yourself, read the lines that follow!

Complications arising from abortion why?

After the embryo is implanted, it begins to grow and develop uterine lining and it very much. By the 9th week of fetal life, the offspring is called an embryo, after that he gets as the fetus or the fetus. If the embryo is 4 mm 6 weeks, 9 weeks is 18 mm.Abortion on demand is allowed up to 12 weeks of fetal life when the fetus is 8 cm. At first the embryo is implanted in the uterus, and placenta is firmly attached to the uterus. The abortion procedure must remove all the tissues that belong to the embryo or fetus and placenta. 

Although it seems a simple solution to a problem, things are not so rosy: Abortion is an invasive surgery, surgical, consisting of tissue destruction and indeparterea. In practice embryo or fetus and placenta are stripped scrape (scraped) from where they grew up, blood vessels they are fed and hand torn tissue in the uterus on this occasion will be removed. In other words, this leaves behind some damage (injury).

Doctors take every precaution but have no way to eliminate all risks for each body responds in kind or in such an operation.Abortion can have serious consequences in the short or long, sometimes for life.

The risks are even lower as stage of pregnancy is less and the more technique is less invasive. 

A special case is that of medical abortion that may have adverse effects of active substances used, and risks that arise as their effectiveness is limited. Medical abortion does not always succeed in completely removing the embryonic tissues.In this case the classical surgical abortion is necessary (or suction curettage).

If abortion aspiration failed to totally remove fetal or placental tissues, they should also scoop.

Abortion Complications

- Uterine bleeding can occur if you did not complete removal of the placenta, if the patient has a clotting problem or blood vessel injury greater. The amount of blood that is lost is high, are required transfusion and surgery to stop bleeding. 

- Perforation of the uterus occurs when the uterine wall crosses scoop. This situation can occur if the uterus is immature or small, if they birth, if retroversion (leaning back), after multiple miscarriages or disease of the uterus, in which case the uterine wall is weakened or suffered repeated damage. Perforation of the uterus is often accompanied by serious bleeding. Surgical intervention is needed to repair blood vessels and ligation of the uterine wall. Sometimes only the uterus but not perforated and surrounding organs: bladder, intestines, etc.. Perforation, bleeding and infection can sometimes require extensive complete removal of the uterus.The surgery is called hysterectomy and cancels the chances that a woman ever have a child.

- Lesions of the cervix due to instruments used to dilate it.Following infection of these lesions can occur (colpitis or cervicitis), deforming scars that may block the cervix. In such a situation to follow after abortion uterine leaks will not be removed. This phenomenon may lead to serious infections of the internal genitalia.

- Especially if the infections occur in fetal and placental tissue removal was not complete and that with the instruments used, picked microbes enter the uterus and the vagina. They affect the ovaries may become the cause of infertility. A Netin infection control may be complicated by perforation of the uterus leading to peritonitis. This is a medical emergency that can cause death.

- Infertility is due to clogged tubes and uterine scars. Uterine wall trauma caused by abortion procedure is always followed by an inflammatory phenomenon. Sometimes this phenomenon can be interesting and fallopian tubes resulting in clogging them. Clogged tubes may undergo recanalization surgery but the effect is of short duration and low efficiency.Uterine scars appear like any other scar, a wound healing. Scar tissue replaces lining lowering the odds that a pregnancy can develop longer in that place.

- Isoimmunization can occur in women with Rh negative (a characteristic of blood) and is developing antibodies to the blood of a future product design. People who have Rh negative is about 15% of the general population. The rest are Rh positive. The odds that a woman with Rh negative Rh positive have a very big task. By abortion, the products of conception removed blood, come into contact with a woman’s. Her body will produce anti-Rh antibodies. These antibodies will remain in her body and I will attack a future pregnancy. It takes a tough treatment for women that have had a chance of a child in the future. Sometimes these treatments are unnecessary.Isoimmunization is the cause of infertility or serious malformation of the child.

- Death is rare but when they meet him no more serious elements: coagulation disorders, uterine perforation, infection, massive, very low immunity, etc..