Clinical and ultrasonographic implications of uterine leiomyomatosis in pregnancy
To study the complications related to leiomyomatosis in pregnancy by clinical and ultrasonographic assessment. A retrospective study. All pregnancies admitted to the 2nd Institute of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Policlinico Umberto I, in the period between January 1992 to December 1993 were surveyed....
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Veröffentlicht in: | Clinical and experimental obstetrics & gynecology 1995, Vol.22 (4), p.293-297 |
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Zusammenfassung: | To study the complications related to leiomyomatosis in pregnancy by clinical and ultrasonographic assessment.
A retrospective study.
All pregnancies admitted to the 2nd Institute of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Policlinico Umberto I, in the period between January 1992 to December 1993 were surveyed.
Gestational age at the time of ultrasonographic neoplasm diagnosis was 25.1 +/- 13.4 weeks, 'we found no correlation between maternal age or parity affecting pregnancy outcome, Leiomyomatosis complicated pregnancy rate was 1.68%. Myomatosis was diagnosed clinically in 25 of 67 cases (37.3%). Regarding the location of the neoplasm, 59% was located in the corpus-uteri, 21% was considered a diffuse neoplasm and the 14% was located in the fundus. Threatened abortion was the most frequent complication (20%), abortion was the second (16.4%). We observed an increased abortion threat rate (p < 0.001) in those cases where the leiomyoma was in relation with the placenta. We had a surgery rate of 76% in pregnancies complicated by myomatosis, and the indication for surgery was given either primarily or exclusively by the presence of myomatous formation in 19 cases (50%).
Our study suggests that location of the leiomyoma in relation to the placenta is a higher risk factor than its size, and that there is a higher risk for threats of abortion and abortion rates in pregnancies complicated by leiomyomatosis. We recommend that every pregnant woman with a suspected myoma should be ultrasonographically scanned. |
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ISSN: | 0390-6663 |