Heterotopic pregnancy: discovery of ectopic pregnancy after elective abortion.
We report a case of combined intrauterine and tubal pregnancy in a 23-year-old woman. The patient came to the emergency department complaining of lower abdominal pain after having had an elective abortion 2 weeks earlier. Her physician had done pelvic ultrasonography, noting an intrauterine pregnancy before the abortion. Our working diagnosis in the emergency department was retained products of conception versus postabortion endometritis. Pelvic ultrasonography in the emergency department revealed an ectopic pregnancy without evidence of retained products of conception, and the patient had a right salpingotomy with removal of the ectopic fetus without complications.
DeFrancesch
F
F
Department of Internal Medicine, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, USA.
DiLeo
L
L
Martinez
J
J
D000028:Abortion, Induced; D000328:Adult; D005187:Fallopian Tubes / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011274:Pregnancy, Tubal / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal