Gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) is a group of several rare tumours that arise in the uterus from placental cells during pregnancy. These are benign majority cases but may be malignant. A 38-year-old woman, Gravida 4 Para 1 A3, was admitted at term 19 weeks amenorrhea +6Days for Fetal death utero (FDIU). evacuation induced medically by misoprostol. The ultrasound showed persistent thicke...

This is a review cTf cases treated here for retention of the placenta during the last 9 years. During this period 18,591 women were confined, of whom 64 had retained placenta due to uterine inertia, contraction ring, or adhesions of the placenta or membranes. Fifty patients were cured, 4 were discharged otherwise and 10 died, giving a mortality of 15.62 per cent (see table I). The third stage o...

Placenta percreta is the most severe form of abnormal placental attachment. It is a variant of placenta accreta in which chorionic villi penetrate the entire thickness of the myometrium through the uterine serosa and may involve the adjacent structures. Literature review shows very few cases encountered during the first trimester of pregnancy. A-20-year-old woman with previous one cesarean sect...

GUNAY, Aytekin, Ulgen GUNAY, and Abdülkadir ORMAN, 2011. Effects of retained placenta on the fertility in treated dairy cows. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 17: 126-131 The objective of this study was to evaluate an effect of the retained placenta on reproductive performance of 222 multiparous cows. The animals with retained placenta (RP) were divided into three treatment groups (TI; n=65, TII; n=47, TI...

Since a few decades, dairy cows have shown a steep increase in milk production, which is unfortunately accompanied by a dramatic decline in reproductive performance. In these high yielding cows there are more puerperal problems than in low yielding cows, such as retained placenta, acute metritis and abnormal vaginal discharge. Cows affected by retained placenta and/or acute metritis are further...

An unusual case of ruptured uterus characterized by spontaneous delivery of the placenta while the foetus is retained in the abdomen is presented. The management and prevention of ruptured uterus in SubSaharan Africa is discussed.