title: [Rupture of two intact tubal pregnancies].
abstract: We report on a 24 years old patient with an acute abdominal pain and an unknown intact tubal pregnancy in the 8th gestation week. The sonographic examination confirmed an intact tubal pregnancy. Shortly after the diagnosis, it ruptured with a massive intraabdominal bleeding. Thereafter, the patient collapsed. We carried out a laparoscopy and performed salpingotomy. Because of the persistent bleeding a salpingectomy was performed. We also report on a second patient 34 years old, who was referred to our Department on suspicion of a ruptured ectopic pregnancy with acute abdominal pains and a positive pregnancy test. The transvaginal sonography revealed massive intraabdominal fluid, adnexal tumor and endometriumhyperplasia without a sign of a gestational sac or an embryo.We carried out a laparoscopy, which revealed a ruptured tubal pregnancy with a life, fetus lying in the abdominal cavity. As a result of the massive and persistent intraabdominal bleeding, we carried out laparotomy and performed salpingectomy. Using these two case reports, the etiology, symptoms, clinical course, diagnosis, as well as surgical and drug therapy are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe, Maria Hilf-Krankenhaus Bergheim - Erftkreis.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Boabang
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Boxhorn
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brunken
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Amo-Takyi
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D000328:Adult; D004622:Embryo, Mammalian / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D011247:Pregnancy; D011258:Pregnancy Tests; D011261:Pregnancy Trimester, First; D011274:Pregnancy, Tubal / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D012489:Salpingostomy; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal