Placenta previa percreta left in situ - management by delayed hysterectomy: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Placenta percreta is an obstetric emergency often associated with massive hemorrhage and emergency hysterectomy. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of a 30-year-old African woman, gravida 7, para 5, with placenta percreta managed by an alternative approach: the placenta was left in...

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Autores principales: Tikkanen, Minna, Stefanovic, Vedran, Paavonen, Jorma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3177929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21867547
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-5-418
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author Tikkanen, Minna
Stefanovic, Vedran
Paavonen, Jorma
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description INTRODUCTION: Placenta percreta is an obstetric emergency often associated with massive hemorrhage and emergency hysterectomy. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of a 30-year-old African woman, gravida 7, para 5, with placenta percreta managed by an alternative approach: the placenta was left in situ, methotrexate was administered, and a delayed hysterectomy was successfully performed. CONCLUSIONS: Further studies are needed to develop the most appropriate management option for the most severe cases of abnormal placentation. Delayed hysterectomy may be a reasonable strategy in the most severe cases.
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spelling pubmed-31779292011-09-22 Placenta previa percreta left in situ - management by delayed hysterectomy: a case report Tikkanen, Minna Stefanovic, Vedran Paavonen, Jorma J Med Case Reports Case Report INTRODUCTION: Placenta percreta is an obstetric emergency often associated with massive hemorrhage and emergency hysterectomy. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of a 30-year-old African woman, gravida 7, para 5, with placenta percreta managed by an alternative approach: the placenta was left in situ, methotrexate was administered, and a delayed hysterectomy was successfully performed. CONCLUSIONS: Further studies are needed to develop the most appropriate management option for the most severe cases of abnormal placentation. Delayed hysterectomy may be a reasonable strategy in the most severe cases. BioMed Central 2011-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3177929/ /pubmed/21867547 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-5-418 Text en Copyright ©2011 Tikkanen 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.
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Tikkanen, Minna
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Placenta previa percreta left in situ - management by delayed hysterectomy: a case report
title Placenta previa percreta left in situ - management by delayed hysterectomy: a case report
title_full Placenta previa percreta left in situ - management by delayed hysterectomy: a case report
title_fullStr Placenta previa percreta left in situ - management by delayed hysterectomy: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Placenta previa percreta left in situ - management by delayed hysterectomy: a case report
title_short Placenta previa percreta left in situ - management by delayed hysterectomy: a case report
title_sort placenta previa percreta left in situ - management by delayed hysterectomy: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3177929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21867547
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-5-418
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