Ectopic pregnancy: extremely rare birth of a viable baby who grew up in the mother's ovary

Indian obstetrician-gynecologists report the exceptional case of a woman whose ectopic pregnancy took place in the ovary and resulted in the birth of a viable baby.

Ectopic pregnancy (EUG) refers to a pregnancy in which the embryo implants somewhere other than the uterine cavity. In the vast majority of cases, this type of pregnancy does not result, the embryo or the fetus cannot grow in good conditions.

But it happens, by a combination of exceptional and extremely rare circumstances, that the ectopic or ectopic pregnancy is carried to term and results in a viable baby.

This is what Indian gynecologists-obstetricians report, who followed a woman whose pregnancy took place in an ovary, and resulted in the birth of a live newborn. They reported on this clinical case in an article published on October 1, 2020 in the “Journal Obstetrics and Gynecology Research”. It was the journalist and doctor Marc Gozlan who revealed the information in France, in his blog "Réalités Biomédicales" (Le Monde).

This is a 35-year-old woman, already the mother of three children, admitted to hospital because of light vaginal bleeding, without associated pain. In the fifth month, this Indian woman had had an ultrasound. This had shown the presence of a breech fetus, but had not established the diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy (EUP). It is this hospitalization for bleeding that will reveal, thanks to an MRI, a gestational sac located outside the uterus, the latter being empty and of normal size in the absence of pregnancy. The term being exceeded by two weeks, the obstetrical team decides to proceed to surgery, and removes a female baby and 3.1 kg from the belly of his mother. They then discovered with surprise that the pregnancy was not only ectopic, but ovarian, since the placenta was attached to the left ovary. It is thanks to the vascularization of the ovary that the fetus was able to be properly supplied with blood.

Due to significant bleeding, the patient had to be transfused and undergo a hysterectomy, that is to say the removal of the uterus. For its part, the baby turns out to be in perfect health, according to the examinations carried out just after birth. Mother and child were discharged from hospital five days after surgery. According to “Le Monde”, which reports the information, both are doing well six months later.

Source: The World

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