Small Intestinal Gangrene Complicating Term Pregnancy: A Case Report

Segmental gut gangrene is a very rare presentation in pregnancy. Gut obstruction (bands and adhesions) and vascular diseases (embolism, thrombosis, vasculitis and thrombophilia) are the usual causes of gut gangrene. In this report, we present a rare case where lower uterine cesarean section was done...

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Autores principales: Mandal, Shyamash, Santra, Gouranga, Roy, Himangsu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: OMJ 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6669305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31440359
http://dx.doi.org/10.5001/omj.2013.109
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description Segmental gut gangrene is a very rare presentation in pregnancy. Gut obstruction (bands and adhesions) and vascular diseases (embolism, thrombosis, vasculitis and thrombophilia) are the usual causes of gut gangrene. In this report, we present a rare case where lower uterine cesarean section was done for fetal distress in an elderly primigravida with term size pregnancy and idiopathic segmental small gut gangrene was identified.
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spelling pubmed-66693052019-08-22 Small Intestinal Gangrene Complicating Term Pregnancy: A Case Report Mandal, Shyamash Santra, Gouranga Roy, Himangsu Oman Med J Case Report Segmental gut gangrene is a very rare presentation in pregnancy. Gut obstruction (bands and adhesions) and vascular diseases (embolism, thrombosis, vasculitis and thrombophilia) are the usual causes of gut gangrene. In this report, we present a rare case where lower uterine cesarean section was done for fetal distress in an elderly primigravida with term size pregnancy and idiopathic segmental small gut gangrene was identified. OMJ 2013-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6669305/ /pubmed/31440359 http://dx.doi.org/10.5001/omj.2013.109 Text en The OMJ is Published Bimonthly and Copyrighted 2013 by the OMSB. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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title_full Small Intestinal Gangrene Complicating Term Pregnancy: A Case Report
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title_short Small Intestinal Gangrene Complicating Term Pregnancy: A Case Report
title_sort small intestinal gangrene complicating term pregnancy: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6669305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31440359
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