Medical news: pregnancy in the liver
Few days ago a colleague of mine showed the video of a real time pregnancy in the liver, I couldn't believe my eyes. This is a rare form of ectopic pregnancy which occurs 1:8000 births. This case was reported in Namibia on the 13th December, 2018. Below is a documented case in the literature to enlighten the reader. The video below is a recent finding in Namibia Reported case As reported by journal of emergency, trauma and shock Primary hepatic pregnancy Reena Yadav, Chitra Raghunandan, [...], and Sarita Chowdhary Abdominal pregnancy is a rare type of ectopic pregnancy with an estimated incidence being 1 in 8,000 births and 1.4 % of all ectopic pregnancies. Most commonly, the site of implantation in an abdominal pregnancy is pelvic, but very rarely it may implant in the upper abdomen. The authors report such a case of primary hepatic pregnancy on account of its rarity and the ther...