Heterotopic pregnancy is a rare condition with an intrauterine pregnancy coexisting with extrauterine pregnancy. It is considered a rare condition, with an incidence of one in 30,000 spontaneous pregnancies. Because of its rarity, there are no international management guidelines.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Hypertensive disorders during pregnancy being the leading causes of maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality remains a serious health issue worldwide due to the high rate of adverse maternal outcomes and close association with neonatal morbidity and mortality. The purpose of our study was to ascertain the perinatal outcomes of preeclampsia (PE) in a tertiary care hospital in Bahrain.
Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted from January 2018 to December 2019 in the department of Gynecology and Obstetrics in Bahrain Defense Hospital.
Common causes of pelvic pain are primary dysmenorrhoea, Müllerian duct anomalies, outflow obstruction, leiomyoma, endometriosis and adenomyosis. Unicornuate uterus with a rudimentary horn is a rare congenital malformation of the female genital tract, asymptomatic because of lack of functional endometrium. This study presents a rare case of a non-communicating functional rudimentary horn.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe present a case of the rare combination of unilateral ovarian leiomyoma, uterine leiomyoma, and goblet cell carcinoid tumor of the appendix in a premenopausal woman who presented with right iliac pain. Immunohistochemistry study for desmin (muscle marker) and chromogranin and synaptophysin (neuroendocrine markers) confirmed immunophenotyping origin. Interestingly, both tumors showed positive reaction for estrogen receptor.
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