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We discuss a case where the blood cultures of a patient with clinical chorioamnionitis and elevated D-dimer levels enabled early diagnosis of infective endocarditis. A 31-year-old female with a 39-week pregnancy presented to the obstetrics department with a fever. Cardiotocography revealed fetal tachycardia and severe late deceleration. Preoperative examinations revealed a leukocyte count of 15,900/µL and D-dimer levels of 86.2 µg/mL. She was diagnosed with a non-reassuring fetal status due to clinical chorioamnionitis; accordingly, an emergency cesarean section was performed. Imaging studies ruled out the possibility of a thromboembolism. Subsequent maternal blood cultures were positive for Staphylococcus aureus. Echocardiography revealed vegetation on the aortic valve, leading to a diagnosis of infective endocarditis. Blood cultures can be useful in evaluating for sepsis in cases of clinical chorioamnionitis with elevated D-dimer levels as they may facilitate early diagnosis of infective endocarditis during pregnancy.
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Uterine arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are rare conditions that cause life-threatening bleeding. Endovascular treatment or total hysterectomy is performed to safely treat most AVMs. This case report describes a 54-year-old female patient with a large uterine AVM, uterine bleeding, and cardiac overload that was difficult to manage but successfully treated. Total hysterectomy poses a high risk of hemorrhage due to significant uterine and internal iliac vein dilation; thus, embolization of feeding arteries was performed with N-butyl cyanoacrylate. However, a postembolization computed tomography scan detected paradoxical embolization of the liver, kidneys, and spleen. Therefore, supracervical hysterectomy was performed with preoperative coil embolization and intraoperative balloon occlusion of the feeding arteries. In this case, supracervical, not total, hysterectomy needed to be performed as the shunts were determined to be in the uterine corpus.
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The diagnosis and management of borderline ovarian tumors during pregnancy are still not standardized, because these tumors are rarely encountered. We report the case of a 27-year-old pregnant woman who presented with an ovarian mass in her first trimester. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a multilocular cystic component with papillary lesions in the background of endometriosis, suggesting a seromucinous borderline tumor or ovarian cancer. A right salpingo-oophorectomy and partial omentectomy were performed at 7 weeks of gestation. Pathological examination demonstrated a serous borderline tumor. The subsequent pregnancy course was uneventful, and she gave birth to a healthy baby at 39 weeks of gestation. She wanted to retain fertility, and close follow-up was performed. Four years later, she became pregnant, and a lesion suggesting recurrence in the left ovary was detected. An abdominal left ovarian cystectomy was performed at 13 weeks of gestation, which demonstrated recurrence of the serous borderline tumor. She gave birth to a healthy baby at 39 weeks of gestation. Two months after delivery, she underwent total abdominal hysterectomy with left salpingo-oophorectomy, which revealed no malignant findings. We also reviewed 10 reports that included 58 cases of borderline ovarian tumors diagnosed during pregnancy. The borderline ovarian tumors diagnosed during pregnancy exhibited different characteristics according to each subtype, suggesting the importance of diagnosing borderline ovarian tumor subtypes preoperatively.
