title: Successful pregnancy in a woman with uterine scarring by transverse fundal cesarean section.
abstract: There has been only one case to date of pregnancy outcome after fundal transverse cesarean section (FTC). We report a pregnancy established after FTC. The FTC was performed at gestational week (GW) 24 in this patient's first pregnancy, but the uterus was preserved. Magnetic resonance imaging studies performed four times in her second pregnancy consistently showed part of the uterine fundus in which the muscle layer was interrupted. Concern regarding spontaneous uterine rupture in the absence of labor pains prompted us to interrupt her pregnancy at GW 31(+5) , delivering a premature, but otherwise healthy female infant, weighing 1832 g. The infant required transient intratracheal intubation for respiratory distress syndrome (for less than 1 h), but had an otherwise uneventful clinical course. Two cases, including ours, suggest that successful pregnancy outcome is feasible at least in some women with uterine scarring due to FTC.
authors.affiliation: Center for Perinatal Medicine, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan.
authors.forename: Ryutaro
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nishida
authors.forename: Mamoru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Morikawa
authors.forename: Takahiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Masamitsu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takeda
authors.forename: Rina
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Akaishi
authors.forename: Kazutoshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Hisanori
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Minakami
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002585:Cesarean Section / Q000379:methods*; D002921:Cicatrix; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D063192:Pregnancy, Heterotopic / Q000628:therapy*; D014599:Uterus / Q000473:pathology*
keywords: cesarean hysterectomy; placenta accreta; placenta previa; postpartum hemorrhage