Ruptured splenic artery aneurysm in pregnancy: twelfth reported case with maternal and fetal survival

Article Abstract:

Doctors should consider the diagnosis of a ruptured splenic artery aneurysm in pregnant patients who have sudden, severe pain in the left abdominal area. An aneurysm is a swelling in the wall of a blood vessel. If it breaks it may cause hemorrhage and death. Pregnant women with a ruptured splenic artery have a 75% chance of death and the fetus has a 95% chance of death. A woman who was 36 1/2 weeks pregnant was admitted to a hospital after she experienced severe pain in the upper left part of her abdomen. The fetal heart rate dropped significantly after one hour and the uterus became contracted. The patient's pulse rate increased to 140 beats per minute. She had an emergency cesarean section with manual removal of the placenta. No bleeding site was found so the original incision was extended. A ruptured spleen artery was discovered and the spleen and artery were removed. The patient and the baby were discharged from the hospital on the seventh day after surgery.

Complications and side effects, Blood vessels, Pregnancy, Complications of, Pregnancy complications, Spleen, Aneurysms, Aneurysm

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Diagnosis of inferior vermian hypoplasia by fetal magnetic resonance imaging: Potential pitfalls and neurodevelopmental outcome

Article Abstract:

The accuracy of fetal magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of isolated inferior vermian hypoplasia is studied and neurodevelopmental outcome is described. Results prove that isolated inferior vermian hypoplasia in the second trimester may be over- diagnosed by fetal magnetic resonance imaging.

Usage, Diagnosis, Nervous system, Magnetic resonance imaging, Neurodegenerative diseases, Disease/Disorder overview

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Fetal sinus bradycardia and the long QT syndrome

Article Abstract:

Many children with a heart arrhythmia called long QT syndrome may have had an abnormally slow heartbeat as a fetus. This could explain the association between long QT syndrome and sudden infant death syndrome.

Research, Arrhythmia, Sudden infant death syndrome

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