It is well known that women need to go to the hospital for various examinations after pregnancy. If women do not go to the hospital for examination, they may miss the best opportunity to treat fetal physical diseases, which will affect their physical health. So after a woman becomes pregnant, she must go to the hospital for examination. When going to the hospital for pregnancy testing, pregnant women need to undergo testing for alpha fetoprotein. So, will pregnant women false-positive for alpha fetoprotein?
After becoming pregnant, women need to go to the hospital for blood tests to check whether various indicators in the pregnant woman's blood are normal. Alpha fetoprotein is a substance in the blood of pregnant women that needs to be monitored and analyzed, which may lead to false positives. Alpha fetoprotein, also known as alpha fetoprotein, is a type of carbohydrate protein mainly produced by fetal liver cells. This substance is generally only present in pregnant women.
Doctors will determine whether the fetus or pregnant woman has liver cancer by detecting alpha fetoprotein in their body. Once the level of alpha fetoprotein in a pregnant woman's body is found to be greater than 400, it indicates that they are highly likely to have primary liver cancer. At this time, further examination is needed, and alpha fetoprotein cannot be relied on to determine that they must have liver cancer. If there is a false positive for alpha fetoprotein, it may interfere with the doctor's judgment.
So, pregnant women should know that alpha fetoprotein can only be an important reference indicator for liver cancer, but they should not rely solely on alpha fetoprotein to determine whether they have liver cancer disease. The determination of liver cancer disease still needs to rely on imaging diagnosis such as B-ultrasound and CT. Therefore, pregnant women should not worry too much about knowing that their alpha fetoprotein content is too high.
