Spontaneous pregnancy after bilateral salpingectomy.

Objective: To report a rare case of spontaneous pregnancy following bilateral salpingectomy.

Design: Case report.

Setting: Maternity unit at a district general hospital in the United Kingdom.

Patient(s): A healthy 38-year-old woman with a history of bilateral salpingectomy.

Intervention(s): Ultrasound scan and serum beta hcG used to diagnose the pregnancy and for follow-up.

Main Outcome Measure(s): Recognition and successful management of the pregnancy.

Result(s): The patient was diagnosed with a noncontinuing pregnancy that resolved spontaneously.

Conclusion(s): A MEDLINE search revealed that this is the first reported case of spontaneous pregnancy following bilateral salpingectomy in the English-language literature and possibly only the second in world literature.