Couvelaire Uterus: A Case Report
Ait Oufkir Meryama *
National Center of Reproductive Health, Mohammed V University, Hospital Ibn Sina, Rabat, Morocco.
Chana Imane
National Center of Reproductive Health, Mohammed V University, Hospital Ibn Sina, Rabat, Morocco.
Kabba Zineb
National Center of Reproductive Health, Mohammed V University, Hospital Ibn Sina, Rabat, Morocco.
Oubel Nawal
National Center of Reproductive Health, Mohammed V University, Hospital Ibn Sina, Rabat, Morocco.
Iloughmane Zakaria
Aeromedical Expertise Center, Military Hospital Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco.
Alami Hassan
National Center of Reproductive Health, Mohammed V University, Hospital Ibn Sina, Rabat, Morocco.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Couvelaire uterus is one of associated complication with retroplacental hematoma, due to extensive extravasation of blood into the uterine musculature reaching the serosa. Uterus shows signs of ecchymosis; we report a case of 34 years old women who was admitted to our hospital at 36 weeks of pregnancy in a typical clinical state of retroplacental hematoma complicated by intrauterine fetal death and the laparotomy showed a Couvelaire uterus.
Keywords: Couvelaire uterus, retroplacental hematoma