Renal Angiomyolipoma During Pregnancy: What Can We Offer?

Renal Angiomyolipoma During Pregnancy: What Can We Offer?

Renal angiomyolipoma is a rare disease seen during pregnancy. Rupture of renal angiomyolipoma could be catastrophic and might result in maternal and even perinatal mortality. Management includes conservative vs surgical approach. A 29-year-old woman Para 2 with history of bleeding renal angiomyolipo...

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Main Authors: Lim, PS, Ng, BK, Rozman Z, Nirmala K, Shuhaila A, Omar MH
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Language:English
Published: Faculty of Medicine, UKM Medical Centre 2015
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spelling ukm-93032016-12-14T06:49:31Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9303/ Renal Angiomyolipoma During Pregnancy: What Can We Offer? Lim, PS Ng, BK Rozman Z, Nirmala K, Shuhaila A, Omar MH, Renal angiomyolipoma is a rare disease seen during pregnancy. Rupture of renal angiomyolipoma could be catastrophic and might result in maternal and even perinatal mortality. Management includes conservative vs surgical approach. A 29-year-old woman Para 2 with history of bleeding renal angiomyolipoma in her first pregnancy at 11 weeks treated with selective arterial embolisation. The pregnancy was terminated. Even though having small residual tumour, her subsequent pregnancy progressed well with conservative management. Intervention is advisable in the presence of large or symptomatic renal angiomyolipoma prior to pregnancy in order to minimise potential life-threatening haemorrhage during pregnancy. For those with small tumour of less than 4cm, perhaps conservative approaches i.e. frequent follow-up and close monitoring would assist in early identification of any rupture or bleeding. Faculty of Medicine, UKM Medical Centre 2015-12-14 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9303/1/14-MS0102-Lim%2520PS%2520et%2520al..pdf Lim, PS and Ng, BK and Rozman Z, and Nirmala K, and Shuhaila A, and Omar MH, (2015) Renal Angiomyolipoma During Pregnancy: What Can We Offer? Journal of Surgical Academia, 5 (2). pp. 62-65. ISSN 2231-7481 http://jsurgical.com
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description Renal angiomyolipoma is a rare disease seen during pregnancy. Rupture of renal angiomyolipoma could be catastrophic and might result in maternal and even perinatal mortality. Management includes conservative vs surgical approach. A 29-year-old woman Para 2 with history of bleeding renal angiomyolipoma in her first pregnancy at 11 weeks treated with selective arterial embolisation. The pregnancy was terminated. Even though having small residual tumour, her subsequent pregnancy progressed well with conservative management. Intervention is advisable in the presence of large or symptomatic renal angiomyolipoma prior to pregnancy in order to minimise potential life-threatening haemorrhage during pregnancy. For those with small tumour of less than 4cm, perhaps conservative approaches i.e. frequent follow-up and close monitoring would assist in early identification of any rupture or bleeding.
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author Lim, PS
Ng, BK
Rozman Z,
Nirmala K,
Shuhaila A,
Omar MH,
spellingShingle Lim, PS
Ng, BK
Rozman Z,
Nirmala K,
Shuhaila A,
Omar MH,
Renal Angiomyolipoma During Pregnancy: What Can We Offer?
author_facet Lim, PS
Ng, BK
Rozman Z,
Nirmala K,
Shuhaila A,
Omar MH,
author_sort Lim, PS
title Renal Angiomyolipoma During Pregnancy: What Can We Offer?
title_short Renal Angiomyolipoma During Pregnancy: What Can We Offer?
title_full Renal Angiomyolipoma During Pregnancy: What Can We Offer?
title_fullStr Renal Angiomyolipoma During Pregnancy: What Can We Offer?
title_full_unstemmed Renal Angiomyolipoma During Pregnancy: What Can We Offer?
title_sort renal angiomyolipoma during pregnancy: what can we offer?
publisher Faculty of Medicine, UKM Medical Centre
publishDate 2015
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9303/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9303/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9303/1/14-MS0102-Lim%2520PS%2520et%2520al..pdf
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