At Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, the Lopez family from Bakersfield, California, recently experienced an unusual medical case. Suze Lopez, a 41-year-old emergency room nurse, was scheduled for surgery to remove a 22-pound ovarian cyst. During a routine pre-surgical pregnancy test, doctors discovered she was pregnant. This was unexpected due to her history of infertility and irregular periods.
Three days later, Suze told her husband, Andrew, about the pregnancy at a Dodgers baseball game. Soon after, she developed abdominal pain and went to Cedars-Sinai. There, doctors found she had high blood pressure. Dr. John Ozimek and his team stabilized her and performed several tests, including MRI, blood work, and ultrasound.
The tests showed Suze had an abdominal ectopic pregnancy. The fertilized egg had implanted outside the uterus, near her liver. Her uterus was empty. The baby, Ryu Lopez, was nearly full-term and had developed in the abdomen, with the ovarian cyst nearby. Abdominal ectopic pregnancies are rare and carry significant risks for both mother and child…