Comment on Residual Adherent Placenta with Bladder Injury: Can We Use Methotrexate

Management of morbidly adherent placenta

Morbidly adherent placenta is a rare complication of human placentation that may threaten maternal life due to massive haemorrhage. Its incidence is increasing due to the rising caesarean section rates worldwide. A high degree of clinical suspicion coupled with ultrasonography, magnetic resonance imaging, and cystoscopy helps in antenatal diagnosis. Elective caesarean hysterectomy with a multid...

Comment on: IgM nephropathy: Can we still ignore it.

Placenta accreta: adherent placenta due to Asherman syndrome

It is important to be aware of the risk of abnormally invasive placenta in patients with a history of Asherman syndrome and uterine scarring. A prenatal diagnosis by ultrasonography is useful when planning of mode of delivery.

Maternal Morbidity in Women with Placenta Previa Managed with Prediction of Morbidly Adherent Placenta by Ultrasonography

Objective. To determine maternal morbidity in women with placenta previa managed with prediction of morbidly adherent placenta (MAP) by ultrasonography. Methods. A retrospective cohort study was undertaken comprising forty-one women who had placenta previa with or without risk factors for MAP. Women who had all three findings (bladder line interruption, placental lacunae, and absence of the ret...

Case of Decapitation and Evisceration, with Adherent Placenta

A.M., seven weeks ago, I was sent for, and urgently requested to come immediately, " because the patient was in great danger." On my arrival, which was in the space of fifteen minutes after the message had been sent, I found the midwife sitting very contentedly by the fireside smoking a pipe. After remarking that nothing very serious could surely be wrong when the accoucheur was taking matters ...