Related Experiment Videos
Massive ascites due to abdominal pregnancy
1Academic Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, UK.
Human Reproduction (Oxford, England)
|February 1, 1997
Abstract:
We describe a case of an abdominal pregnancy which presented in the first trimester with rapid accumulation of blood stained ascites. The ascites resolved completely following surgical removal of a gestational sac from the peritoneal cavity. The pathophysiology of ascites in this case may be similar to that in cases of ascites in other non-malignant gynaecological conditions.