Vaginal cesarean section for second-trimester therapeutic abortion

• Main Authors: Shinya Karakida (Author), Toshio Sasaki (Author), Kentaro Kai (Author), Kei Harada (Author), Shinichiro Yoshimura (Author), Michiharu Kono (Author), Hisashi Narahara (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2013-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: Pregnancy does not increase the risk of bleeding from a brain arteriovenous malformation (AVM), but once an AVM has bled during pregnancy, the rate of rebleeding during the same pregnancy is high. Therefore, termination of the pregnancy is an option for patients in whom the AVM is located...