Nonobstetric surgery during pregnancy: risk factors for mother and child
M Janssen, B Arabin, J van Eyck, H ter Brugge · Zeitschrift für Geburtshilfe und Neonatologie · 2007 · Heft 12
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Non-obstetric surgery is combined with maternal and fetal risks during pregnancy. Aim of the study is to review own patients and discuss the literature related to this topic. Cases: 1) Acute abdominal pain required surgery in a pregnant woman at 16 gestational weeks. During surgery, peritonitis was present of unknown cause. Three days later intrauterine death was diagnosed. After spontaneous delivery the patient became increasingly ill, relaparotomy showed a rectal defect and faeces intra-abdominal. Retrospective it was assumed that the primary source of infection was pelvic: explained by the pathologic findings…