title: Placement and removal of abdominal cerclage by laparoscopy.
abstract: The patient was a 26-year-old woman with cervical incompetence who underwent a laparoscopic abdominal cerclage. She subsequently conceived; however, severe oligohydramnios was encountered at 19 weeks of gestation. Instead of performing a hysterotomy that required a laparotomy, the cerclage was removed laparoscopically. She delivered the following day. This is the first reported laparoscopic abdominal cerclage and its removal by laparoscopy at 19 weeks of gestation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, McGill University, 687 Pine Ave. West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 1A1.
authors.forename: Mohammed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Agdi
authors.forename: Togas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tulandi
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen; D000328:Adult; D023802:Cerclage, Cervical / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D020878:Device Removal / Q000379:methods*; D020964:Embryo Loss; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D016104:Oligohydramnios / Q000209:etiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011262:Pregnancy Trimester, Second; D002581:Uterine Cervical Incompetence / Q000601:surgery*