Learn about the causes and symptoms of a blighted ovum.

With a blighted ovum, you may have experienced signs of pregnancy.

If you have received a diagnosis of a blighted ovum, discuss with your doctor what to do next.

For most women, a blighted ovum occurs only once.

That's why a blighted ovum is also called an anembryonic pregnancy.

Other terms for this condition are blighted ovum and anembryonic pregnancy.

With a blighted ovum, though, the pregnancy sac forms and grows, but the embryo does not develop.

Miscarriages from a blighted ovum are often due to problems with chromosomes, the structures that carry genes.

Frequently the twin is a blighted ovum, one that never developed beyond the very earliest stages of embryogenesis.

A blighted ovum causes about one out of two miscarriages in the first trimester of pregnancy.

It encompasses anembryonic gestation (blighted ovum) which does not have a viable embryo.

A blighted ovum occurs when a fertilized egg implants in the uterus but doesn't develop into an embryo.

With a blighted ovum, hCG can continue to rise because the placenta may grow for a brief time, even when an embryo is not present.

For this reason, an ultrasound test is usually needed to diagnose a blighted ovum - to confirm that the pregnancy sac is empty.

Assess possible risks to the mother (e.g., miscarriage, blighted ovum, ectopic pregnancy, or a molar pregnancy condition)

Aquino suffered a miscarriage with collapsed gestational sac and blighted ovum on March 25, 2008, a day after she announced that her mother was diagnosed with colon cancer.

If you thought you had a normal pregnancy, you're not alone; many women with a blighted ovum think so because their levels of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) may increase.

An anembryonic gestation (also known as a blighted ovum) is a pregnancy in which the very early pregnancy appears normal on an ultrasound scan, but as the pregnancy progresses a visible embryo never develops.

Blighted ovum - pregnancy hormones make your periods stop because an egg is fertilised and a sac develops, but the fertilised egg doesn't grow any further (also known as 'anembryionic pregnancy' or pregnancy without an embryo).