A 43-year-old woman gave birth to a baby girl after a pregnancy with a herniated uterus, which is a large hernia outside the abdominal cavity. A situation considered "high risk" that was resolved in Turin.

"All over the world, in more than 50 years, only 16 cases of term pregnancies have been described in a uterus herniated outside the abdomen, and not all with a good outcome", underlines the Città della Salute of the Piedmontese capital in a note.

The parturient, a 43-year-old from Cuneo, was in her fifth pregnancy and had been admitted to the Sant'Anna hospital in Turin in the university gynecology and obstetrics department.

The magnetic resonance confirmed the suspicion of a large hernia of the abdominal wall complicated by the presence of the pregnant uterus inside the "sac" outside the abdomen.

At the thirty-seventh week of pregnancy, a team made up of Chiara Benedetto, Luca Marozio and Maurizio Giarola performed a caesarean section using intraoperative ultrasound control.

The woman thus gave birth to a girl weighing 2,240 grams.

A second team ( Francesco Moro and Luca Grasso ) proceeded with the simultaneous reconstruction of the abdominal wall with the use of a biological prosthesis. The new mother was discharged after six days and her little daughter, according to the hospital, is "in excellent condition".

«It is - comments Giovanni La Valle , director general of the City of Health - a miraculous intervention that allowed the mother and newborn to be saved. Once again, the Città della Salute of Turin confirms its excellence at the Piedmontese and Italian level in all fields of health. Congratulations to the synergistic work of the numerous teams that participated in this extraordinary multi-specialist intervention".

(Unioneonline/lf)