Heterotopic Pregnancy
Journal Title: Gynecology and Obstetrics Research – Open Journal - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 4
Abstract
Heterotopic pregnancy is a rare gynaecological condition whereby there is a presence of an intrauterine pregnancy and extrauterine pregnancy at the same time. It was first defined by Duverney in 1708 as an autopsy finding in a patient who had died of a ruptured ectopic pregnancy and had an intrauterine pregnancy.1 Rarely an intrauterine twin gestation can co-exist with a heterotopic pregnancy or vice versa. Higher order heterotopic gestations are extremely rare.2 This condition may cause diagnostic difficulties and the patient may collapse and die during investigations. Those occurring after fertility treatments may face ethical and emotional dilemma of having to lose one of their babies. It is a rare life-threatening condition that very few clinicians would come across during their careers. It is therefore an important clinical condition, hence the need to bring the subject prominence through a review article like this one.
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Solwayo Ngwenya
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