Spontaneous retroperitoneal hemorrhage caused by rupture of an ovarian artery aneurysm: a case report and review of the literature

Table 1 Reported 18 cases of pregnancy-related spontaneous rupture of the ovarian artery

Age (years)	Gravida/para	Side	Onset	Treatment	Author, year
29	G4P4	L	2d postpartum	Laparotomy	Caillouette and Owen, 1963 [1]
35	G6P3	L	4d postpartum	Laparotomy	Tsoutsoplides, 1967 [2]
38	G6P6	R	During delivery	Laparotomy	Riley, 1975 [3]
32	G3P3	L	4d postpartum	Laparotomy	Burnett and Carfrae, 1976 [4]
35	G3P3	R	4d postpartum	Laparotomy	Same as above
26	G5P4	R	1d postpartum	Laparotomy	Jafari and Saleh, 1977 [5]
23	N/A	R	1m postpartum	Laparotomy	Mojab and Rodriguez, 1977 [6]
31	G4P3	R	39w of gestation	Laparotomy (caesarean section, ovarian artery ligation)	Høgdall et al., 1989 [8]
36	G5P5	R	4d postpartum	TAE	King, 1990 [9]
38	G3P2	R	During delivery	Laparotomy	Belfort et al., 1993 [10]
38	G3P2	R	4d postpartum	TAE→ lomboscopic drainage	Guillem et al., 1999 [11]
38	G12P11	R	3d postpartum	Laparotomy	Blachar et al., 2000 [12]
37	P4	L	39w of gestation	Laparotomy (caesarean section, ovarian artery ligation)	Panoskaltsis et al., 2000 [13]
30	G5P5	L	5h postpartum	Laparotomy	Kale et al., 2005 [15]
39	G5P4	R	5d postpartum	TAE	Poilblanc et al., 2008 [17]
32	P4	L	2d postpartum	Laparotomy→TAE	Mohammed et al., 2011 [21]
37	G4P4	L	4d postpartum	TAE	Wakimoto et al., 2014 [23]
31	G6P4	L	2d postpartum	TAE	Sakaguchi et al., 2014 [24]

Abbreviations: d, day(s); h, hour(s); L, left; m, month; N/A, not available; R, right; TAE, transcatheter arterial embolization; w, week(s).

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