Successful diagnosis and management of prerupture rudimentary horn pregnancy in the second trimester: a case report

Abstract

Rudimentary horn pregnancy has concerns due to the high incidence of an extreme risk of a life-threatening rupture. Thus, early diagnosis and management are essential to preserving the patient's life. We present a successful diagnosis and management of a prerupture rudimentary horn pregnancy in a 24-year-old woman presented with chronic pelvic pain and amenorrhea for the last 3 months. On physical examination, she had a mobile, nontender mass equals 16 weeks of gestation. Transvaginal ultrasound revealed an empty uterus with signs of a decidual reaction and a gestational sac adjacent to the uterus and surrounded by less than a 2 mm-in-thickness muscular wall with a positive fetal heart rate. The gestational age was 16 weeks based on biparietal diameter and femur length. Based on these findings rudimentary horn pregnancy was suspected. Laparotomy was performed, unicornuate uterus with unruptured, left rudimentary horn pregnancy was observed, and the pregnant horn with the ipsilateral tube was excised. To conclude, an empty uterus and extrauterine gestational sac surrounded by a thin muscular wall (<2 mm) on ultrasound should raise the suspicion of rudimentary horn pregnancy.

Keywords

• Cornual pregnancy
• Rudimentary horn pregnancy
• Laparotomy
• Unicornuate uterus
• Müllerian anomalies