BACKGROUND:

Leiomyomas and gestation are an association with unpredictable complications, in which their incidence is increased by the delay of the first gestation and as maternal age advances, its relationship with postpartum hemorrhage and high risk of obstetric hysterectomy increases maternal morbidity and mortality proportionally.

CLINICAL CASE:

A 30-year-old patient without prenatal care and a clinically terminal pregnancy, who attended the emergency department due to obstetric pain and transvaginal bleeding. Physical examination revealed first labor, 9cm of dilation, height of presentation -4 according to plans From Lee, placental edge was palpated at the cervical level, accompanied by moderate transvaginal bleeding, bright red, mater code is activated and prepared for cesarean section, for bleeding placenta, during the surgical event, corroborates diagnosis and tumor that starts on the face posterior, lower uterine segment and ends at the cervical level, with multiple vessels of bleeding neoformation and secondary uterine atony, causing significant hemorrhage, obstetric hysterectomy was performed, a new born with sex female woman with a weight of 3145 g, size 51cm, Capurro 41 weeks of gestation was obtained, Apgar 7/9, the total blood loss was 2000 cc, 4 days of inpatient hospital stay, the binomial without complications was graduated.

CONCLUSION:

The association of uterine myomatosis and pregnancy increase the risk of maternal complications, adequate ultrasound monitoring and prenatal control, determine the repercussion during the evolution of pregnancy and childbirth, conservative management should always be considered.

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