A 35-year-old woman with recurrent severe placenta-mediated pregnancy complications in her 2 pregnancies asks: Will low-molecular-weight heparin help prevent recurrent placenta-mediated pregnancy complications in my next pregnancy? We performed a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) vs no LMWH for the prevention of recurrent placenta...

INTRODUCTION Abdominal pregnancy is a rare event, but one that represents a grave risk to the health of the pregnant woman. An abdominal pregnancy is defined as an ectopic pregnancy that implants in the peritoneal cavity. Early abdominal pregnancy is self-limited by hemorrhage from trophoblastic invasion with complete abortion of the gestational sac that leaves a discrete crater. Advanced abdom...

Considering the increasing trend for ectopic pregnancies in the world and different reports on its complications and the fate of the following pregnancies, this study was performed to determine the relationship between these factors in referrals of the hospitals of Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences from 1991 to 1996. The cohort strategy of this research study was carried out on 2...

The reported incidence of ectopic pregnancy after bilateral salpingectomies is very low. We present a 31-year-old woman, who had an ectopic pregnancy after bilateral salpingectomies for previous ectopic pregnancies. A high index of suspicion for pregnancy is prudent to avoid missing an ectopic pregnancy despite a history of bilateral salpingectomies. Not all cases of ectopic pregnancies present...

Ectopic pregnancy is a life threatening condition and is a major event in a woman's reproductive life. We report herein an unusual case of repeated ectopic pregnancy even after the excision of both fallopian tubes with a deleterious consequences and a near miss. This case teaches us a lesson not to forget ectopic pregnancy. The lady in this report underwent in vitro fertilization treatment cycl...

Pregnancy implantation within the scar of a previous cesarean delivery is one of the rarest locations for an ectopic pregnancy. Early diagnosis of this condition with the use of ultrasound imaging allows for preserving the uterus and subsequent fertility. However, a delay in either diagnosis or treatment can lead to uterine rupture, hysterectomy and significant maternal morbidity. With increasi...

objective: reports of increased level of myeloperoxidase (mpo) in plasma and placental extracts of systematic lupus erythematosus (sle) has been proposed that mpo may have an important role in this pregnancy complication. in present study immunohistochemical mpo expression was investigated in placental samples of sle women compared with normal controls. materials and methods: ten patients with ...