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Damien Punguyire, Kenneth V. Iserson, Stephen Apanga. Full-term pregnancy in umbilical hernia.
The Pan African Medical Journal. 2011;8:6

Key words: Pregnancy complications, umbilical hernia, ventral hernia, Cesarean section, grand multiparity

Permanent link: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/8/6/full

Received: 09/01/2011 - Accepted: 10/01/2011 - Published: 31/01/2011

© Damien Punguyire et al. The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Full-term pregnancy in umbilical hernia

Damien Punguyire¹, Kenneth V. Iserson^2,&, Stephen Apanga²

¹ Kintampo Municipal Hospital Kintampo, Ghana Kintampo Health Research Centre Kintampo, Ghana, ²Department of Emergency Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

^&Corresponding author

Department of Emergency Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

Abstract

While umbilical hernias frequently occur during pregnancy, the few reported cases of uterine or fibroid incarceration in ventral hernias during pregnancy all involved incisional abdominal wall defects from prior laparotomies and Cesarean sections; none involved umbilical hernias. We discuss the case of a 42-year-old well-developed, well-nourished grand multiparous woman (G8P7) with a huge umbilical hernia containing a 38-week gravid uterus, as well as her management and the avoidance of known complications that have occurred in similar incisional hernia cases. Successful pregnancy outcomes can occur in cases of pregnancies in ventral hernias, even in resource-poor settings that have Cesarean section capabilities.

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