Pregnant women with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) carry a high risk of arterial or venous thrombosis. Such thrombotic conditions occur more frequently in patients with triple positivity to antiphospholipid antibodies or with high antibody titers. Hepatic infarction is a rare complication in pregnant women with APS, and it sometimes mimics HELLP syndrome. This report describes a preeclamptic pregnant woman with APS who had high titers of three antiphospholipid antibodies. She experienced severe epigastric pain with elevated liver enzymes; in addition, she had tachycardia and tachypnea. The clinical findings suggested hepatic infarction and pulmonary thromboembolism, a partial manifestation of catastrophic APS. Therefore, she underwent emergent cesarean section at 25+2 weeks of gestation. After the delivery, her laboratory test indicated HELLP-like features, and computed tomography confirmed hepatic infarction and pulmonary micro-thromboembolism. Here, we report a case of a partial manifestation of catastrophic APS in a pregnant woman with triple antibody positivity, including a brief literature review.
Peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET) is a small round tumor belonging to the PNET/Ewing's sarcoma family classified based on location in the body. There have been a small number of case reports of PNET arising in the ovary. We present extremely rare case of PNET of the ovary occurring in a 32-year-old pregnant woman, which was detected during her second Cesarean section. She had a past history of oophorectomy due to a huge mature solid teratoma in left ovary during her first Cesarean section. She got the operation of right salpingoophorectomy during the second Cesarean section at local gynecologic clinic and referred to our institute. Magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography revealed the PNET was metastased to the peritoneum and the lymph nodes. We had persecuted vincristine, doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, and etoposide/ifosfamide 8 cycles. There has been no evidence of local tumor recurrence and metastasis after the chemotherapy until now.
Gonadal dysgenesis occurs in rare case of ovarian tumor. Most tumors associated with gonadal dysgenesis were gonadoblastomas and dysgerminomas. In addition, premature ovarian insufficiency associated with these ovarian tumors in normal chromosomal type had not reported in many cases. A 29-year-old nulligravida woman who was concurrented with ovarian dysgerminoma and fibroma is presented. Measurements were made on serum lactate dehydrogenase, CA-125, CA 19-9 and pelvis ultrasonography and computed tomography. The clinical stage was IA and right salpingo-oophorectomy and wedge resection of the left ovary were done. On laboratory finding after operation on her serum follicular stimulating hormone was increased and E 2 was decreased. The result of chromosomal analysis was 46,XX, normal. We represent here with brief review of literature one case of gonadal dysgenesis in nulligravida woman, associated with dysgerminoma, with normal karyotype.
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