Extensive small bowel gangrene at mid-term pregnancy with fruitful outcome

Abstract

Intestinal obstruction during pregnancy is very rare. The mechanical intestinal obstruction was mostly due to adhesion from previous surgery. Pregnancy may mask the symptoms of intestinal obstruction, and virgin abdomen adds to the ambiguity of the diagnosis. The mortality and morbidity increased for the mother and the fetus in the presence of bowel gangrene. We present a case of intestinal obstruction at mid-term pregnancy with extensive small bowel gangrene which necessitates right hemicolectomy and ends with a good outcome for the mother and fetus.

Mesenteric venous thrombosis causing acute mesenteric ischemia in the first trimester of pregnancy

“…In 2017, a few cases of acute mesenteric ischemia in pregnancy were published, some cases showed some sort of pathology that could have been a predisposing factor to the thromboembolic disease as antiphospholipid syndrome or following surgery, however other cases showed no additional predisposing factor rather than the pregnancy itself [6][7][8][9].…”