THEORY-BASED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY

Precipitating factors
>age
>lifestyle

Predisposing factor
>pelvic inflammatory disease
>uterine curettage
> previous tubal surgery
> endometriosis

dysfunction of the cilia which normally

propels the fertilized ovum through the tube
into the uterine cavity

disruption of the scarring of the

fallopian tube

blocks or slows the movement of a fertilized

egg through the fallopian tube to the uterus

fertilized ovum
implants outside the painless
uterus bleeding

ectopic pregnancy
(fallopian tube, ovary,
abdomen

blastocyst burrows into the

epithelium of the tubal wall
 before rupture
tapping of the blood vessels
abortion, spontaneous abdominal pain
in the tube regression or rupture vaginal bleeding
abdominal tenderness

embryonic during rupture:

death exacerbation of pain

after rupture :
excessive maternal faintness/ dizziness
bleeding hemorrhage abdominal pain
ssign of shock

maternal
death
 PATIENT-BASED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY

Precipitating factors

Predisposing factor

dysfunction of the cilia which normally

propels the fertilized ovum through the tube
into the uterine cavity

disruption of the scarring of the

fallopian tube

blocks or slows the movement of a fertilized

egg through the fallopian tube to the uterus

fertilized ovum
implants outside the
uterus (abdominal
cavity)
 painless
bleeding

Abdominal ectopic
pregnancy

blastocyst attached in the

abdominal organs

tapping of the blood vessels

in the abdominal organs before rupture:
abdominal pain
vaginal bleeding

maternal
hemorrhage