Case Report
Year: 2022 | Month: April | Volume: 12 | Issue: 4 | Pages: 321-324
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20220438
A Case Report of Uterine Artery Aneurysm
Saima Najam1, Rania Qassim Hussain2
1Head of the OBGYN Department, Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Hospital, Sweidi, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2Consultant, OBGYN, Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Hospital, Sweidi, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Corresponding Author: Saima Najam
ABSTRACT
Secondary PPH is defined as abnormal or excessive bleeding from the birth canal between 24 hours and 12 weeks postnatally. Uterine artery pseudo-aneurysm (UAP) is one of the rare causes of the secondary PPH, a prevalence of 2-3/1000 deliveries has been cited when asymptomatic patients are included. We are reporting here a case of 40 years old middle eastern female who presented with secondary PPH after emergency lower segment cesarean section (LSCS). On her third visit she was investigated and diagnosed as UAP for which her Uterine artery embolization (UAE) was done and the fertility of the patient was preserved.
Key words: Uterine artery embolization, hemorrhage, uterine artery pseudoaneurysm.