New treatment for ectopic pregnancy

Melbourne mum Elizabeth Cacencu has praised a new treatment for ectopic pregnancy. Source: AAP

MELBOURNE woman Elizabeth Cacencu lost one of her fallopian tubes when she suffered an ectopic pregnancy.

So when she experienced her second ectopic pregnancy there was a real danger she could lose her only remaining fallopian tube and her chance to conceive naturally again.

Ectopic pregnancies occur when the embryo embeds in the fallopian tube rather than the uterus. This dangerous condition affects up to two per cent of pregnancies.

Mrs Cacencu believes a new treatment for ectopic pregnancies saved her from having to have surgery and potentially lose her remaining fallopian tube.

Four months later she became pregnant again and today she is the mother of 22-month-old son Seth.

"I am extremely grateful to have avoided surgery as Seth would not be here otherwise," Mrs Cacencu said.

She was one of 12 women in a trial conducted by the Monash Institute of Medical Research (MIMR), which used two drugs - methotrexate and gefitinib - for the treatment for ectopic pregnancies.

Methotrexate is already used for the treatment of this condition. However, the trial has found that when both of these drugs were used the ectopic pregnancies were cured 34 per cent faster and more effectively than by giving methotrexate alone.

Dr Monika Skubisz, an author of the clinical trial research paper, said the other major benefit of this treatment is that the need for surgery to remove the fallopian tube is reduced in a significant number of cases.

The research was published on Tuesday in the prestigious journal Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

It was led by MIMR's Associate Professor Terrance Johns, Melbourne University's Associate Professor Stephen Tong and Edinburgh University's Dr Andrew Horne.

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