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Absence of Wharton’s Jelly at the Abdominal Site of the Umbilical Cord Insertion. Rare Case Report and Review of the Literature
Wharton’s jelly is a specialized connective tissue surrounding and protecting umbilical cord vessels. In its absence, the vessels are exposed to the risk of compression or rupture. Because the condition is very rare and there are no available antepartum investigation methods for diagnosis, these cas...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8625092/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34833486 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina57111268 |
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author | Botezatu, Radu Raduteanu, Sandra Ciobanu, Anca Marina Gica, Nicolae Peltecu, Gheorghe Panaitescu, Anca Maria |
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description | Wharton’s jelly is a specialized connective tissue surrounding and protecting umbilical cord vessels. In its absence, the vessels are exposed to the risk of compression or rupture. Because the condition is very rare and there are no available antepartum investigation methods for diagnosis, these cases are usually discovered after delivery, frequently after in utero fetal demise. We report the fortunate case of a 29-year-old nulliparous woman, with an uncomplicated pregnancy, admitted at 39 weeks in labor where a persistently abnormal cardiotocographic trace led to delivery by cesarean section of a healthy 3500 g newborn. After delivery, a Wharton’s jelly anomaly was identified at the abdominal umbilical insertion (umbilical cord vessels, approximately 1 cm in length, were completely uncovered by Wharton’s jelly), which required surgical thread elective ligation. In the presence of a persistently abnormal CTG trace, in a pregnancy with no clinical settings suggestive of either chronic or acute fetal hypoxemia, the absence of Wharton’s jelly should be taken into consideration in the differential diagnosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-86250922021-11-27 Absence of Wharton’s Jelly at the Abdominal Site of the Umbilical Cord Insertion. Rare Case Report and Review of the Literature Botezatu, Radu Raduteanu, Sandra Ciobanu, Anca Marina Gica, Nicolae Peltecu, Gheorghe Panaitescu, Anca Maria Medicina (Kaunas) Case Report Wharton’s jelly is a specialized connective tissue surrounding and protecting umbilical cord vessels. In its absence, the vessels are exposed to the risk of compression or rupture. Because the condition is very rare and there are no available antepartum investigation methods for diagnosis, these cases are usually discovered after delivery, frequently after in utero fetal demise. We report the fortunate case of a 29-year-old nulliparous woman, with an uncomplicated pregnancy, admitted at 39 weeks in labor where a persistently abnormal cardiotocographic trace led to delivery by cesarean section of a healthy 3500 g newborn. After delivery, a Wharton’s jelly anomaly was identified at the abdominal umbilical insertion (umbilical cord vessels, approximately 1 cm in length, were completely uncovered by Wharton’s jelly), which required surgical thread elective ligation. In the presence of a persistently abnormal CTG trace, in a pregnancy with no clinical settings suggestive of either chronic or acute fetal hypoxemia, the absence of Wharton’s jelly should be taken into consideration in the differential diagnosis. MDPI 2021-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8625092/ /pubmed/34833486 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina57111268 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Botezatu, Radu Raduteanu, Sandra Ciobanu, Anca Marina Gica, Nicolae Peltecu, Gheorghe Panaitescu, Anca Maria Absence of Wharton’s Jelly at the Abdominal Site of the Umbilical Cord Insertion. Rare Case Report and Review of the Literature |
title | Absence of Wharton’s Jelly at the Abdominal Site of the Umbilical Cord Insertion. Rare Case Report and Review of the Literature |
title_full | Absence of Wharton’s Jelly at the Abdominal Site of the Umbilical Cord Insertion. Rare Case Report and Review of the Literature |
title_fullStr | Absence of Wharton’s Jelly at the Abdominal Site of the Umbilical Cord Insertion. Rare Case Report and Review of the Literature |
title_full_unstemmed | Absence of Wharton’s Jelly at the Abdominal Site of the Umbilical Cord Insertion. Rare Case Report and Review of the Literature |
title_short | Absence of Wharton’s Jelly at the Abdominal Site of the Umbilical Cord Insertion. Rare Case Report and Review of the Literature |
title_sort | absence of wharton’s jelly at the abdominal site of the umbilical cord insertion. rare case report and review of the literature |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8625092/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34833486 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina57111268 |
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