A Rare Case Report of Uterine Didelphys, in Which One Uterus Carried a Pregnancy While the Other Carried Twice, with a Successful Pregnancy Outcome Resulting in an Alive-Term Delivery
Uterine didelphys is a rare congenital anomaly of the female reproductive organs, designated by the presence of the uterus as a pair of organ, the chance of having a pregnancy in one of the uterus while the other one had successfully pregnant twice is very low. In this case, report we present a 31-year-old gravida four para three deliveries (two Cesarean section, alive and healthy, one spontaneous abortion) woman, who received C-section to terminate pregnancy due to intrauterine hypoxia and oligohydramnios, with the outcome of a 3000 g male alive neonate. Intraoperatively, there was uterine didelphys, one uterus holding the pregnancy while the other with caesarean section scar.
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