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Treatment of heterotopic cervical pregnancy after in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer by using transvaginal ultrasound-guided aspiration and instillation of hypertonic solution of sodium chloride.

Prorocic M, Vasiljevic M

Clinic of Gynecology and Obstetrics Narodni Front, Belgrade Medical School, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro. nvas@eunet.yu

OBJECTIVE: To report a case of successful treatment of heterotopic cervical pregnancy resulting from IVF-embryo transfer. DESIGN: Case report. SETTING: Tertiary university clinical center. PATIENT(S): A 31-year-old patient, treated for heterotopic cervical pregnancy, diagnosed in the 6th gestational week. INTERVENTION(S): Transvaginal ultrasound-guided aspiration of cervical pregnancy and instillation of hypertonic solution of sodium chloride, upon ligation of descending cervical branches of the uterine arteries. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Patient recovery and further maintenance of intrauterine twin pregnancy. RESULT(S): The cervical pregnancy was successfully aborted, and the intrauterine twin pregnancy was successfully maintained. CONCLUSION(S): The intervention applied may be used in treatment of heterotopic cervical pregnancy.

Published 8 October 2007 in Fertil Steril, 88(4): 969.e3-5.
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