%0 Journal Article
%T Molar Pregnancy in the Emergency Department
%A Masterson
%A Lori
%A Chan
%A Shu B
%A Bluhm
%A Bryan
%J Western Journal of Emergency Medicine : Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health
%D 2009
%I UC Irvine Health School of Medicine.
%X A 15-year-old female presented to the emergency department with complaints of vaginal bleeding. She was pale, anxious, cool and clammy with tachycardic, thready peripheral pulses and hemoglobin of 2.4g/dL. Her abdomen was gravid appearing, approximately early to mid-second trimester in size. Pelvic examination revealed 2 cm open cervical os with spontaneous discharge of blood, clots and a copious amount of champagne-colored grapelike spongy material. After 2L boluses of normal saline and two units of crossmatched blood, patient was transported to the operating room. Surgical pathology confirmed a complete hydatidiform mole.[West J Emerg Med. 2009;10(4):295-296.]
%K Hydatidiform mole
%K molar pregnancy
%K Emergency Department
%K case report
%U http://escholarship.org/uc/item/569107db