Spontaneous heterotopic pregnancy in a patient with a history of primary infertility:

Number: 1 April 1, 2014
  • Ömer Demirtaş
  • Gülşah Demirtaş
  • Emre Gültekin
  • Ali Öner Erdoğdu
  • Bülent Yeşilyurt
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Spontaneous heterotopic pregnancy in a patient with a history of primary infertility:

Abstract

İntroduction: Heterotopic pregnancy is characterized as the presence of simultaneously two gestation sacs commonly one in the uterine cavity and the other in the fallopian tube. Spontaneous heterotopic pregnancy is diagnosed rarely with a 1/30.000 incidence.Case: We reported a 28 year old patient admitted to the emergency room with acute abdomen diagnosed with spontaneous heterotopic pregnancy. Assessed by ultrasound, the patient had a left tubal ectopic pregnancy component with intrauterine pregnancy. The patient underwent a successful laparoscopic left salpingectomy. Pregnancy were continued postoperatively at 7th week. But this week, the embryo died.Conclusion: An obstetrician should keep in mind heterotopic pregnancy expecially the patients with risk factors, and the patients without risk factors must be assesed adnexial side and pelvis with transvaginal ultrasonography in early gestational weeks because of missing diagnoses.

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Ömer Demirtaş This is me

Gülşah Demirtaş This is me

Emre Gültekin This is me

Ali Öner Erdoğdu This is me

Bülent Yeşilyurt This is me

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April 1, 2014

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April 1, 2014

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Year 2014 Number: 1

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1.Demirtaş Ö, Demirtaş G, Gültekin E, Erdoğdu AÖ, Yeşilyurt B. Spontaneous heterotopic pregnancy in a patient with a history of primary infertility: Pam Med J. 2014;(1):71-74. https://izlik.org/JA83HL86ZA

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