Ligation of Anterior Internal Iliac Artery With Conservative Management of Partial or Focal Placenta Accreta Spectrum
Placenta Accreta
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Placenta Accreta
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age: 20-40 years old.
- Pregnancy of singleton living fetus.
- Previous one or more cesarean sections.
- Gestational age: > 36 weeks.
- Elective termination of pregnancy.
- Cases not requiring preoperative blood transfusion.
- Cases with focal area of placental adherence or invasion leaving sufficient healthy myometrial tissue for uterine repair and preservation.
- The following ultrasound markers such as "loss of clear retroplacental translucency", "myometrial thinning", "abnormal lacunae", "irregular bladder wall", "utero-vesical hypervascularity".
Exclusion Criteria:
- Multifetal pregnancy.
- More than four previous sections.
- Emergency termination of pregnancy due to antepartum hemorrhage, placental separation or rupture uterus.
- Intrauterine fetal death.
- Women with history of any medical disorder with pregnancy eg. Gestational diabetes and hypertension.
- Premature rupture of membranes.
- Cases misdiagnosed as placenta accreta by ultrasound preoperatively, and spontaneous full placental separation occurred intraoperative. "will be excluded before randomization"
- Cases with PAS with total invasion involving all placental lobules.
- Cases who will be managed by cesarean hysterectomy due to uncontrolled intraoperative bleeding.
Sites / Locations
- Cairo UniversityRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Active Comparator
Placebo Comparator
Study group
Control group
Cases managed by uterine lower segment resection with ligation ((suturing)) of the anterior division of the internal iliac artery (4 cm distal to the bifurcation of the common iliac artery); in addition to the bilateral uterine artery ligation at 2 levels; bilateral ligation at a level below the lower most placental part followed by bilateral uterine artery ligation at the level of the hysterotomy incision.
Cases managed by uterine lower segment resection without ligation of the anterior division of the internal iliac artery. (i.e., only bilateral ligation at a level below the lower most placental part followed by bilateral uterine artery ligation at the level of the hysterotomy incision).