[Placenta accreta, a growing problem. Prenatal diagnosis as successful treatment]

Placenta accreta is recognized as a catastrophic disease in obstetrics. Diagnosed incidentally, it has been a rare disease in previous decades prior indiscriminate use of cesarean delivery. The World Health Organization has recently highlighted this disease as a new pandemic, which is directly related to patients who have two or more caesarean sections. Our country keeps high rates of caesarean section and therefore this problem will be increasing in diagnosis. It is necessary that medical units made ad hoc clinical guidelines, for prompt intervention in these cases. Early diagnosis should be given priority in women with these risk characteristics. With the advent of high-resolution sonography, specific images have been identified supporting the diagnosis during pregnancy; likewise, multidisciplinary treatments are especially of interest. The interventional radiology offers treatments semiconservative that have proven to reduce morbidity and mortality.