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Complications

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Fertility is usually unaffected but complications may arise during labour:

  • late miscarriage } due to poor implantation and/or
  • premature labour } increased sensitivity to stimuli
  • malpresentation - especially in uterus subseptus
  • obstructed labour - if one horn of a bicornute uterus, especially a bicornute, bicollis uterus, falls behind the horn in which the conception sac has grown
  • retained placenta
  • postpartum haemorrhage

In a bicornute uterus with a rudimentary second horn, pregnancy may occur in the rudimentary horn. Rupture and severe haemorrhage are certain although often slightly later than in a tubal pregnancy, usually in the 16th week of gestation. If the cavity is blind ending, menstruation in the rudimentary horn will be damaged, causing haematometra and increasing dysmenorrhoea.


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