Heterotopic Pregnancy

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  • Solwayo Ngwenya

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17140/GOROJ-2-120

Keywords:

Heterotopic pregnancy, Life-threatening, Risk factors, Life-saving, Maternal col- lapse and death, Emergency laparotomy

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.

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2015-11-13

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Solwayo Ngwenya. (2015). Heterotopic Pregnancy. Gynecology and Obstetrics Research, 2(4), 89–92. https://doi.org/10.17140/GOROJ-2-120

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