Case Reports
Journal Article
Add like
Add dislike
Add to saved papers

Cesarean Scar Pregnancy Complicated with Placenta Percreta.

Medical Archives 2019 Februrary
INTRODUCTION: Cesarean scar pregnancy is potentially life-threatening condition because of heavy complications and includes adherent placenta: accreta, increta or percreta as a result of deep placental invasion.

AIM: To present a rare case of ectopic cesarean scar pregnancy combined with placenta percreta in 38-year old woman who undergone previous cesarean section delivery.

CASE REPORT: A multiparous woman aged 38 years with prior cesarean section delivery, admitted first time to the Clinic in 7th week of gestation, due to her medical record (light bleeding). Diagnosis was: graviditas hbd 7, gemellar pregnancy, blighted ovum gemellus I, graviditas isthmico-cervicalis gemellus II. Due to diagnosis it was performed vacuum aspiration et curettage and woman leaved hospital same day. One month later same woman was admitted again to the Clinic due to bleeding and ultrasound finding suspicious to residual trophoblastic tissue. Beta human chorionic gonadotropin serum concentration at the day of admittance was 8,419 IU/ml. Ultrasound finding showed inhomogeneous supracervical formation with dimension 2,73x1,89 cm with increased vascularity and resistant index 0.36 and suspicious placenta increta. We made decision to surgery, and performed hysterectomy in view of heavy intraoperative haemorrhage. Woman was discharged at fifth day after surgery in good condition. Histological finding showed cervical pregnancy complicated with placenta percreta parietis isthmicocervicalis of the uterus.

CONCLUSION: We showed the importance of early and opportune diagnosis of cervical pregnancy specially complicated with one of kind of throphoblastic disease, to prevent life-threatening complication.

Full text links

We have located links that may give you full text access.
Can't access the paper?
Try logging in through your university/institutional subscription. For a smoother one-click institutional access experience, please use our mobile app.

Related Resources

For the best experience, use the Read mobile app

Mobile app image

Get seemless 1-tap access through your institution/university

For the best experience, use the Read mobile app

All material on this website is protected by copyright, Copyright © 1994-2024 by WebMD LLC.
This website also contains material copyrighted by 3rd parties.

By using this service, you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy.

Your Privacy Choices Toggle icon

You can now claim free CME credits for this literature searchClaim now

Get seemless 1-tap access through your institution/university

For the best experience, use the Read mobile app