Background. Placenta accreta is a potentially life-threatening obstetrical condition and is responsible for many emergency Caesarean hysterectomies. Early prenatal diagnosis may help minimize maternal morbidity and mortality. This report highlights risk factors, early diagnostic findings and complications associated with placenta accreta, and the role of first trimester sonography in diagnosis....

OBJECTIVE Estimate the incidence of placenta accreta and describe risk factors, clinical practice and perinatal outcomes. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTING Sites in Australia and New Zealand with at least 50 births per year. PARTICIPANTS Cases were women giving birth (≥20 weeks or fetus ≥400 g) who were diagnosed with placenta accreta by antenatal imaging, at operation or by pathology sp...

Background Cesarean section (CS) is an independent risk factor for placenta accreta. Some researchers think that the timing of primary cesarean delivery is associated with placenta accreta in subsequent pregnancies. The aim of this study was to investigate the risk of placenta accreta following primary CS without labor, also called primary elective CS, in a pregnancy complicated with placenta p...

Fifty years ago, placenta accreta was an obstetric rarity. Today, however, placenta accreta and its variations represent one of the principal causes of maternal morbidity and mortality. That this is the case is often attributed to the increased number of cesarean deliveries, but close examination of the numbers involved suggests that other factors may also be in operation. The potential for the...

Objectives: To assess risk factors, outcomes and provide combinations of treatment for placenta accreta in our hospital of Shanghai, China. Methods: Clinical data of 153 women with placenta accreta and 149 controls between January 2010 and January 2015 were retrospectively collected. Univariate and multivariable logistic regression analyses were performed. Results: The maternal age (OR = 1.268,...

BACKGROUND Placenta accreta is a rare obstetrical condition that mainly occurs in the third trimester leading to life-threatening complications. Hereby, a case of uterine rupture due to placenta accreta occuring in the second trimester is presented. CASE PRESENTATION A forty-year old patient who conceived after in vitro fertilization treatment (oocyte donation and embryo transfer) presented i...

Placenta previa presents a highest risk to pregnancy, and placenta accreta is the most serious. Placenta accreta requires cesarean delivery and often results in massive obstetric hemorrhage and higher maternal morbidity. Challenges associated with cesarean delivery techniques may contribute to increased maternal blood loss and morbidity rates. Several recent obstetric studies reported the usefu...

We present here a case of uterine perforation following manual removal of the placenta during the third stage of normal labor. Total abdominal hysterectomy was performed, and the 4x3-cm perforation of the uterus and placenta accreta were confirmed. In this case, the round ligament covering the hematoma prevented bleeding into the peritoneal cavity and peritonitis. Manual removal of the placenta...

conclusions this case was the first reported morbidity of fistula in the uterocutaneous pathway. introduction this was a report of uterocutaneous fistula as a rare complication of expectant management of placenta increta, and a review of the literature. case presentation a 38- year- old pregnant woman in her third term of pregnancy was operated on in a secondary hospital in arak (a city located...

www.aana.com/aanajournalonline.aspx The rate of cesarean delivery in the United States is at an all-time high. With the increased rate of primary and repeated cesarean delivery, a corresponding increase in the occurrence rate of placenta previa and placenta accreta has been observed. The purpose of this case report is to discuss the obstetric disorder of placenta previa with the concurrent occu...