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How Does The Sperm Reach Where The Egg Is?

Posted on Fri, 16 May 2014

Question: how and where is the egg fertilized if atopic and how does the sperm reach where the egg is and why cant the egg go to the uterus via the same route as the sperm got to the egg

Answered by Dr. Mahesh Koregol (23 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
fallopian tube

Detailed Answer:
Hi

The sperm reach egg travelling through uterus into fallopian tube where it meets egg and fertilisation takes place.

This embryo travels down to uterus and gets implanted.

If fallopian tubes are not healthy the embryo cannot travel down to uterus and hence remains in fallopian tube.

This leads to ectopic pregnancy.

Let me know if you have any more questions.

Regards
Dr. Mahesh Koregol
IVF and infertility Specialist

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar

Follow up: Dr. Mahesh Koregol (14 minutes later)

how then can an atopic pregnancy occur without fullopian tubes and how did the sperm get to the egg why cant the egg get to the uterus via the same? if an atopic pregnancy without fullopian tubes is possible how did the sperm reach the egg.as i was just informed by a doctor online

Answered by Dr. Mahesh Koregol (18 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
2 things

Detailed Answer:
Hi

There are 2 different matters here. One is ectopic pregnancy and the other is atopic pregnancy.

I presume you got confused.

Atopic pregnancy might happen out side uterus and fallopian tubes. Commonly in ovary as fallopian tube fails to pick up egg and sperm being small in size can easily travel through uterus fallopian tubes and reach ovary.

Ectopic pregnancy is as described above. Please attach if you have any reports with you. So that I can go through the same and give you accurate answer.

Regards.
Dr. Mahesh Koregol

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar