Mom and Baby Were OK
A pregnant woman came into our community hospital with some abdominal pain. Her doctor determined she was not in labor so we just treated her with medication. The new obstetrician noted that the patient’s blood pressure had dropped. Now the diagnosis is likely a uterine rupture.
The solution is an emergency C section. A uterine rupture is bad enough, but when we removed the tiny preterm baby, we discovered a horrific truth. It wasn’t a rupture but a placenta percreta. That’s when the placenta grows through the wall of the uterus and into the surrounding organs.
This condition is usually detected on a prenatal ultrasound, but the patient had skipped hers. If she hadn’t missed it, this surgery would have been performed in a big city due to its risky and delicate nature. Thankfully, mom and baby were OK. TableWallFurnace