Hydatidiform Mole Research Paper

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•Hydatidiform mole also known as molar pregnancy, a benign tumor that develops in the uterus. A molar pregnancy starts when an egg is fertilized, but instead of a normal, viable pregnancy resulting. The placenta develops into an abnormal mass of cysts.

•The cause of a hydatidiform mole is from a low protein intake. Contributing factors of molar pregnancy are caused by an abnormally fertilized egg. Risk factors that are associated with molar pregnancy are maternal age, more likely a woman older than 35 or younger than 20, if you have had one molar pregnancy you are more likely to have another.

•Signs and symptoms of molar pregnancy are dark brown to bright red vaginal bleeding during the first trimester, severe nausea and vomiting, sometimes

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