Ballantyne syndrome or mirror syndrome was first described in 1892. It is a disorder affecting pregnant women describing the association of fetal anasarca complicated by more or less generalized maternal edema and albuminuria (and sometimes anemia). It is a rare clinical entity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The recent COVID-19 pandemic has led several countries worldwide to confine the population. Consequently, people's mobility and physical activity are limited in addition to a negative psychosocial effect. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of COVID-19 crisis on short-term weight loss and the remission of obesity-associated comorbidities in patients undergoing sleeve gastrectomy (SG).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDelivery hemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal mortality in Morocco. It is an obstetric emergency requiring early, effective and multidisciplinary management in patients with severe postpartum bleeding resistant to medical treatment. Advances in interventional radiology and especially, in surgical techniques have provided safe and effective alternatives to hemostasis hysterectomy .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCongenital upper airway obstruction syndrome is a rare malformation that can be fatal to a newborn baby. It is defined as a complete or almost complete obstruction of the upper airways. CHAOS rate is unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The transverse septum of the vagina or vaginal septum is a rare abnormality of the female genital tract. The most frequently advanced etiology is a defect in the fusion and/or channelling of the urogenital sinus and Mullerian conductors. This structural obstruction can completely obstruct the vagina and thus can cause a haematocolpos associated with cyclic pelvic pain shortly after menarche in adolescent girls.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The hydatid cyst of the breast is a rare pathology even in countries endemic to tuberculosis, however there remains a differential diagnosis evoked in front of any breast tumor. The clinic, mammography and ultrasound sometimes allow us to suspect the hydatid nature of the lesion. The definitive diagnosis remains histological and the treatment is always surgical.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlacenta accreta spectrum disorders is a rare pathology but the incidence has not stopped to increase in recent years. The purpose of our work was the analysis of the epidemiological profile of our patients, the circumstances of diagnosis, the interest of paraclinical explorations in antenatal diagnosis and the evaluation of the evolutionary profile. We hereby report a case series spread over a period of one year from 01/01/2015 to 01/01/2016 at the Gynaecology-Obstetrics department of the University Hospital Center IBN SINA of Rabat where we identified six cases of placenta accreta.
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