Asymptomatic 39 Weeks Abdominal Pregnancy - Video Report of a Case Occurred in Ivory Coast Resulting in a Live Birth.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the current advances in antenatal care and imaging methodologies in obstetrics, cases of advanced abdominal pregnancies are still reported, mostly in low- and middle-income countries where frequently only a few perinatal checks are performed and where these methodologies are sometimes not adopted in obstetrical outpatient settings.

Case presentation

We report the video of a case of a 20-year-old I gravida Ivorian patient, sent to CHU de T reichville in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, for management of abdominal 39 weeks pregnancy after routine antenatal care. She was asymptomatic with a live foetus in transverse lie position. The anamnesis revealed four prenatal checks without ultrasound evaluation, the first one at 24 weeks of pregnancy. Emergency median longitudin

SUBMITTER: Iovenitti P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10298481 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature