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Sally Street1, Marloes Dekker Nitert2, Leonie K Callaway3
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Redland Hospital, Cleveland, Queensland, Australia.
Abstract:
Spontaneous adrenal haemorrhage (SAH) is a rare event in the general population, estimated to be around 0.3-1.8%. The exact incidence in pregnancy is unknown but rare. Most cases of SAH at or near term have presented with massive haemorrhage and haemodynamic instability, requiring emergency caesarean delivery or intrauterine fetal death. This is the first reported case of a successful vaginal delivery after acute, spontaneous, left adrenal haemorrhage at term.
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