Spontaneous bilateral tubal ectopic pregnancy

Ceylon Med J. 2009 Mar;54(1):21-2. doi: 10.4038/cmj.v54i1.470.

Abstract

A 28-year-old woman presented at eight weeks and four days of gestation, according to her menstrual dates, complaining of painless vaginal bleeding for three days. Her urinary pregnancy test was positive. Initial transvaginal ultrasound demonstrated an irregular complex structure with a fluid filled centre in the right adnexum. Despite the diagnosis of a possible underlying unruptured right tubal ectopic pregnancy, she declined surgical intervention and was managed expectantly as an inpatient. When she complained of increasing abdominal pain with haemodynamic instability, an emergency laparotomy was performed and a diagnosis of bilateral tubal ectopic pregnancy was made.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abdominal Pain / diagnosis*
  • Abdominal Pain / diagnostic imaging
  • Abdominal Pain / surgery
  • Adult
  • Chorionic Gonadotropin / blood
  • Chorionic Villi / pathology*
  • Fallopian Tubes / surgery
  • Female
  • Hemodynamics
  • Hemoperitoneum / diagnosis
  • Hemoperitoneum / etiology
  • Hemoperitoneum / surgery
  • Humans
  • Laparotomy
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy, Tubal / diagnosis*
  • Pregnancy, Tubal / diagnostic imaging
  • Pregnancy, Tubal / surgery
  • Time Factors
  • Ultrasonography

Substances

  • Chorionic Gonadotropin