Advanced Abdominal Ectopic Pregnancy that Ended with Double Obstetric Tragedy, Case Report and Literature Review
Asfaw Kibret*, Tomas Amenu and Abate Alemu
ABSTRACT
Abdominal pregnancy is the rarest form of ectopic pregnancy and has life threatening complication both for the mother and her fetus. It is called advanced abdominal pregnancy when it passes 20weeks of gestational age.Most of the time it is missed diagnosed and it is intraoperative or late surprises. In resource limited set up it is intraoperative catastrophy where there is no high multidiciplinary expertise not available. High suspicion is needed in obstetrics care to identify such cases and to get the benifits of thougtfull preparation of the management if diagnosed preoperatively. This case report is to present our failure and misdiagnosis of the case of advanced abdominal pregnancy which later ended with double obstetric tragedy.
