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Reminder of important clinical lesson
Placenta accreta associated with submucosal fibroid polyp
  1. Papa Dasari
  1. JIPMER, Puducherry, India
  1. Correspondence to Papa Dasari, dasaripapa{at}gmail.com

Summary

A 35-year-old para 1, whose child birth was 5 years ago, was on barrier contraception and safe period. She was diagnosed to have a small submucosal posterior wall fibroid when she planned for her second child now. She conceived spontaneously during the next cycle after consultation. Her first trimester ultrasonography revealed placental implantation on the fibroid. She developed severe pre-eclampsia at 32 weeks of pregnancy and suffered from uncontrolled hypertension. and pulmonary oedema. Pregnancy was terminated at 33+4 weeks by elective lower segment caesarean section (LSCS) because of severe pre-eclampsia, pulmonary oedema and unfavourable cervix. At LSCS, placenta was found to be adherent to the pedunculated fibroid polyp which was removed by clamping, cutting and ligating the pedicle. Histopathological examination revealed placenta accreta and hyaline change of leiomyomatous polyp. Fetus was preterm, weighed 2.1 kg and survived.

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