Failed Induction in Second Trimester Due to Pregnancy in an Uncommunicated Rudimentary Horn: Case report
,
Abstract
Pregnancy in the rudimentary horn of uterus is rare. Uterine rupture is a rare obstetrical catastrophe that occurs before 20 weeks’ gestation in 70% of unicornate uterus cases. A 24-year-old primigravida woman was referred to our hospital due to failed induction-in-17th-weeks-of-her-pregnancy. Fetal-death was confirmed on abdominal ultrasound. Examination under-anaesthesia revealed -pregnancy-in thetrudimentary-horn.-It is concluded that careful-evaluation of probable-mullerian-anomaly-should-be-considered in every failed-induction.
Nahum GG. Rudimentary uterine horn pregnancy: The 20th century worldwide experience of 588 cases. J Reprod Med 2002; 47: 151– 63.
Nahum GG. Rudimentary uterine horn pregnancy: a case report on surviving twins delivered 8 days apart. J Reprod Med 1997;42:525- 32.
Panayotidis C, Abdel-Fattah M, Leggott M. Rupture of rudimentary uterine horn of a unicornuate uterus at 15 weeks' gestation. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2004; 24: 323 – 4.
Elsayegh A, Nwosu EC. Rupture of pregnancy in the communicating rudimentary uterine horn at 34 weeks. Hum Reprod 1998;13: 3566- 8.
Oral B, Guney M, Ozsoy M, Sönal S. Placenta accrete associated with a ruptured pregnant rudimentary uterine horn: case report and review of the literature. Arch Gynecol Obstet 2001;265:100 - 2.
Jayasinghe Y, Rane A, Stalewksi H, Grover S. The presentation and early diagnosis of the rudimentary uterine horn. Obstet Gynecol 2005;105: 1456–67.
Pal K, Majumdar S, Mukhopadhyay S. Rupture of rudimentary uterine horn pregnancy at 37 weeks gestation with fetal survival. Arch Gynecol Obstet 2006; 274 : 325– 6.
Goel P, Saha PK, Mehra R, Huria A. Unruptured postdated pregnancy with a live fetus in a noncommunicating rudimentary horn. Indian J Med Sci 2007; 61: 23–7.
Taori K, Saha BK, Shah D, Khadaria N, Jadhav V, Jawale R. Sonographic Diagnosis of Uncomplicated First-Trimester Pregnancy in the Rudimentary Horn of a Unicornuate Uterus. J Clin Ultrasound 2008;36:45-7.
Tsafrir A, Rojansky N, Sela HY, Gomori JM, Nadjari M. Rudimentary horn pregnancy: First-trimester prerupture sonographic diagnosis and confirmation by magnetic resonance imaging. J Ultrasound Med 2005;24:219–23.
| Files | ||
| Issue | Vol 3, No 3 (September 2009) | |
| Section | Case Reports | |
| Keywords | ||
| Mullerian anomaly Rudimentary horn Pregnancy | ||
| Rights and permissions | |
|
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. |
