Hemorragia post-parto: embolización terapéutica / Postpartum hemorrhage: therapeutic embolization

Paciente de 29 años, puérpera, que presenta importante hemorragia postparto, con comprimiso hemodinámioco, que no cede a los tratamientos gineco-obstétricos habituales. Por su condición de primiparidad se decide intentar terapia endovascular, efectuándose embolización selectiva de ramas cérvico-uterinas, lograndose detener el sangramiento en forma exitosa.

29 year old patient, which presents a major postpartum hemorrhage, with hemodynamic involvement, that did not respond to the usual obstetric gynecological treatments. For its status of primiparity, it is decided to try endovascular theraphy; performing a selective embolization of cervical-uterine branches, that was successful.