Ovarian Pregnancy: 2 Case Reports and a Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: Ovarian pregnancy is a rare but well-known pathology. However, pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment are not established. Therefore, all case reports on ovarian pregnancy published in PubMed from November 2011 till November 2022 were reviewed and two case reports were added. In these 84 case reports, 8% of ovarian pregnancies occurred in women without or with blocked oviducts and 23% were localised on the other side than the corpus luteum. Since symptoms are not specific, ovarian pregnancy has to be suspected in all women with abdominal bleeding. Surgical excision is the preferred treatment. However, since an associated intra-uterine pregnancy cannot be excluded, care should be taken not to interrupt this intra-uterine pregnancy with the uterine cannula or by damaging the corpus luteum.

SUBMITTER: Almahloul Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9917991 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature