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Spontaneous pregnancy after bilateral salpingectomy
Shrikant S Bollapragada1, Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Elisabeth Serle
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ayrshire Central Hospital, Kilwinning Road, Irvine, United Kingdom. bsshrikant@yahoo.com
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.
