Meckel's Diverticulum: The “Great Mimic” but Often a Forgotten Cause of Acute Abdomen during Pregnancy

Meckel's diverticulitis is an extremely rare event during pregnancy. Its diagnosis is often difficult and can result in higher maternal and fetal morbimortality. We describe a case of a 40-year-old healthy pregnant woman at 33 weeks of gestation who presented with abdominal pain and tender abdo...

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Autores principales: Féria, Beatriz, Trindade, Madalena, Palma, Maria João, Figueiredo, Joana, Passos, Filipa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9197602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35711682
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/2383075
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author Féria, Beatriz
Trindade, Madalena
Palma, Maria João
Figueiredo, Joana
Passos, Filipa
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description Meckel's diverticulitis is an extremely rare event during pregnancy. Its diagnosis is often difficult and can result in higher maternal and fetal morbimortality. We describe a case of a 40-year-old healthy pregnant woman at 33 weeks of gestation who presented with abdominal pain and tender abdomen, leukocytosis, and elevated PCR. The imagiological exams were not conclusive. After an urgent caesarean section due to worsening of clinical status and nonreassuring fetal well-being, a laparotomy revealed a distended, necrotic, and perforated Meckel's diverticulum.
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spelling pubmed-91976022022-06-15 Meckel's Diverticulum: The “Great Mimic” but Often a Forgotten Cause of Acute Abdomen during Pregnancy Féria, Beatriz Trindade, Madalena Palma, Maria João Figueiredo, Joana Passos, Filipa Case Rep Obstet Gynecol Case Report Meckel's diverticulitis is an extremely rare event during pregnancy. Its diagnosis is often difficult and can result in higher maternal and fetal morbimortality. We describe a case of a 40-year-old healthy pregnant woman at 33 weeks of gestation who presented with abdominal pain and tender abdomen, leukocytosis, and elevated PCR. The imagiological exams were not conclusive. After an urgent caesarean section due to worsening of clinical status and nonreassuring fetal well-being, a laparotomy revealed a distended, necrotic, and perforated Meckel's diverticulum. Hindawi 2022-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9197602/ /pubmed/35711682 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/2383075 Text en Copyright © 2022 Beatriz Féria et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Palma, Maria João
Figueiredo, Joana
Passos, Filipa
Meckel's Diverticulum: The “Great Mimic” but Often a Forgotten Cause of Acute Abdomen during Pregnancy
title Meckel's Diverticulum: The “Great Mimic” but Often a Forgotten Cause of Acute Abdomen during Pregnancy
title_full Meckel's Diverticulum: The “Great Mimic” but Often a Forgotten Cause of Acute Abdomen during Pregnancy
title_fullStr Meckel's Diverticulum: The “Great Mimic” but Often a Forgotten Cause of Acute Abdomen during Pregnancy
title_full_unstemmed Meckel's Diverticulum: The “Great Mimic” but Often a Forgotten Cause of Acute Abdomen during Pregnancy
title_short Meckel's Diverticulum: The “Great Mimic” but Often a Forgotten Cause of Acute Abdomen during Pregnancy
title_sort meckel's diverticulum: the “great mimic” but often a forgotten cause of acute abdomen during pregnancy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9197602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35711682
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/2383075
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