Abdominal pregnancy at term: case report.

Authors

  • Mario Díaz González

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18597/rcog.656

Keywords:

Abdominal pregnancy, ectopic pregnancy, pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, abruptio placentae

Abstract

Abdominal pregnancy is uncommon and associated with higher fetal and maternal mortality. It is rare to grow to term and furthermore obtain a newborn in good conditions.

A case of abdominal pregnancy at term ( 40,5 weeks) which was successfully treated in the Clinica General del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia, by the obstetrics and gynecologist department; was an obstetric patient of 33 years old, G2P1 with initial diagnosis of 40,5 weeks of gestation, abruptio placentae and pre-eclampsia; with postoperative diagnosis of abdominal pregnancy at term with a newborn in good conditions.

This article is a case report. It has a general interest for two reasons:

1) Its an uncommon event in obstetrics, the abdominal pregnancies with an alive fetus have very now frequency in the world.

2) A brief revision and how to confront this kind of cases is made.

Author Biography

Mario Díaz González

Gineco-Obstetra. Clínica General del Norte- Barranquilla, Colombia. Profesor. Departamento de Gineco-Obstetricia. Pregrado y postgrado - Universidad Metropolitana y Hospital Universitario Metropolitano. Barranquilla, Colombia

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How to Cite

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Díaz González M. Abdominal pregnancy at term: case report. Rev. colomb. obstet. ginecol. [Internet]. 2002 Mar. 27 [cited 2024 May 19];53(1):93-5. Available from: https://revista.fecolsog.org/index.php/rcog/article/view/656

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