Strangulation of the umbilical cord by an amnion band - a rare cause of intrauterine demise: a case report

INTRODUCTION: The amniotic band syndrome has a scarce prevalence and intrauterine death as a result of amniotic bands formation is extremely rare. CASE PRESENTATION: We present an illustrative case of intrauterine death of an embryo in the 24th gestational week in an 30-year old primigravida. The de...

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Autores principales: Chatzigeorgiou, Konstantinos, Theodoridis, Theodoros, Efstratiou, Ioannis, Athanasiadis, Apostolos, Zepiridis, Leonidas, Tzevelekis, Filippos, Tarlatzis, Basil
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803905/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20062685
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9108
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author Chatzigeorgiou, Konstantinos
Theodoridis, Theodoros
Efstratiou, Ioannis
Athanasiadis, Apostolos
Zepiridis, Leonidas
Tzevelekis, Filippos
Tarlatzis, Basil
author_facet Chatzigeorgiou, Konstantinos
Theodoridis, Theodoros
Efstratiou, Ioannis
Athanasiadis, Apostolos
Zepiridis, Leonidas
Tzevelekis, Filippos
Tarlatzis, Basil
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description INTRODUCTION: The amniotic band syndrome has a scarce prevalence and intrauterine death as a result of amniotic bands formation is extremely rare. CASE PRESENTATION: We present an illustrative case of intrauterine death of an embryo in the 24th gestational week in an 30-year old primigravida. The death was ascribed to the twisting of the umbilical cord around the left upper extremity, causing a strangulation of the umbilical cord in a very impressive way. CONCLUSION: Constriction of the umbilical cord by an amniotic band is extremely rare and very hard, if not impossible, to diagnose with antenatal sonography.
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spelling pubmed-28039052010-01-10 Strangulation of the umbilical cord by an amnion band - a rare cause of intrauterine demise: a case report Chatzigeorgiou, Konstantinos Theodoridis, Theodoros Efstratiou, Ioannis Athanasiadis, Apostolos Zepiridis, Leonidas Tzevelekis, Filippos Tarlatzis, Basil Cases J Case Report INTRODUCTION: The amniotic band syndrome has a scarce prevalence and intrauterine death as a result of amniotic bands formation is extremely rare. CASE PRESENTATION: We present an illustrative case of intrauterine death of an embryo in the 24th gestational week in an 30-year old primigravida. The death was ascribed to the twisting of the umbilical cord around the left upper extremity, causing a strangulation of the umbilical cord in a very impressive way. CONCLUSION: Constriction of the umbilical cord by an amniotic band is extremely rare and very hard, if not impossible, to diagnose with antenatal sonography. BioMed Central 2009-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC2803905/ /pubmed/20062685 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9108 Text en Copyright ©2009 Chatzigeorgiou et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Chatzigeorgiou, Konstantinos
Theodoridis, Theodoros
Efstratiou, Ioannis
Athanasiadis, Apostolos
Zepiridis, Leonidas
Tzevelekis, Filippos
Tarlatzis, Basil
Strangulation of the umbilical cord by an amnion band - a rare cause of intrauterine demise: a case report
title Strangulation of the umbilical cord by an amnion band - a rare cause of intrauterine demise: a case report
title_full Strangulation of the umbilical cord by an amnion band - a rare cause of intrauterine demise: a case report
title_fullStr Strangulation of the umbilical cord by an amnion band - a rare cause of intrauterine demise: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Strangulation of the umbilical cord by an amnion band - a rare cause of intrauterine demise: a case report
title_short Strangulation of the umbilical cord by an amnion band - a rare cause of intrauterine demise: a case report
title_sort strangulation of the umbilical cord by an amnion band - a rare cause of intrauterine demise: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803905/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20062685
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9108
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