The Hindu : Karnataka News : Team of doctors saves woman with ‘ovarian pregnancy’ in Madikeri

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Team of doctors saves woman with ‘ovarian pregnancy’ in Madikeri

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Kishore Kumtakar and his team at the surgery table in Madikeri.

Madikeri: Kishore Kumtakar, gynaecologist and obstetrician at the District Hospital in Madikeri, performed a surgery for “ovarian pregnancy” in a woman to save her on Wednesday, according to information received by The Hindu.

The “ectopic pregnancy” (pregnancy outside uteral cavity) was detected by Dr. Kumtakar after the woman approached him complaining of abdominal pain. Dr. Kumtakar said that 99.5 per cent of the cases were “tubal ectopic pregnancy” which also needed to be removed, but the chance of occurrence of “ectopic pregnancy” was just 0.5 per cent. He told The Hindu that the pregnancy had surprisingly continued in the ovary of the woman for three months, which also was uncommon. Such pregnancy would rupture in one and half months. The woman would have died if she had not been brought to the hospital, he said. “This is only the second such case in my experience,” Dr. Kumtakar said. The woman had undergone three Caesarian sections earlier, apart from tubectomy and appendicitis operations, he said. The woman had started bleeding from inside and almost a litre of blood was sucked out from the peritoneal cavity, he said. The woman’s condition is stable.

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