Incidence of placenta accreta and its complications in cases of previous cesearean sections with placenta praevia anterior at El-Sayed Galal Hospital

ABSTRACT

Background: due to the increasing rate of cesarean delivery, there has been a 10-fold rise in the incidence of placenta accreta since the 1970. In a recent survey, placenta accreta was even found to become the leading cause of emergency peripartum hysterectomy which represented 40–60% of cases