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The placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) which includes accreta, increta, and percreta represents a significant obstetric challenge. PAS complicates as many as 1 per 500 pregnancies and this risk is increased with prior cesarean deliveries. Antenatal diagnosis of PAS allows for multidisciplinary planning and delivery before the onset of labor and/or vaginal bleeding. This approach has reduced maternal morbidity rates. including less blood loss, fewer transfusion requirements and, intraoperative urinary tract injury as well as improve fetal outcome.

Ultrasound evaluation is the recommended first-line modality for diagnosing PAS. Ultrasound features suggestive of PAS include loss of the normal retroplacental clear zone, attenuation of the uterine-bladder interface, reduced retroplacental myometrial thickness, presence of intraplacental lacunar spaces, and bridging vessels between the placenta and bladder. A systematic review reported that the antenatal diagnosis of PAS significantly lowered the rate of urinary tract injury (from 63% to 39%) during cesarean hysterectomies in these cases.

Unlike other elective cesarean hysterectomies, cesarean hysterectomy with a placenta previa increta/percreta, is more difficult. There is a greater need to both keep a margin from the vascular cervical-placental mass and simultaneously protect the urinary bladder. Case series reported that bladder filling helps the surgeon to more clearly identify the planes of dissection and secure the engorged aberrant vessels, thereby reduces bladder injury. Accordingly, a prospective randomized study in pregnant patients with placenta previa increta/percreta undergoing elective cesarean hysterectomy will be conducted to address this important issue.


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NCT number NCT04210479
Study type Interventional
Source Mansoura University
Contact Hatem Abu Hashim, MD.FRCOG.PhD
Phone +20502300002
Email hatem_ah@hotmail.com
Status Not yet recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date January 15, 2020
Completion date June 30, 2021

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