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Twin pregnancy complicated with acute appendicitis and cholecystitis in the same gestational period.

Başaran A, Bozdağ G, Aksu AT, Deren O

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Sihhiye, 06100, Ankara, Turkey, ahmetba@hacettepe.edu.tr.

INTRODUCTION: Acute appendicitis and symptomatic biliary stones are the most common indications for non-obstetrical surgical procedures during pregnancy. However, combination of these two clinical presentations in the same gestational period is anecdotal. CASE REPORT: A 30-year-old twin pregnant patient complicated with acute appendicitis followed by cholecystitis was reported with poor fetal outcomes. CONCLUSION: Despite appropriate management when two conditions, appendicitis and cholecystitis, occur in the same gestational period one after another complications might become inevitable.

Published 26 July 2007 in Arch Gynecol Obstet, 276(3): 291-293.
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