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Acute abdomen in pregnancy is a clinical entity that occurs in approximately 2 in every 1000 pregnant women, its definition says that it is “sudden and acute abdominal pain with a rapid evolution that requires urgent treatment and can lead to death. in case of not receiving timely treatment”. Her progress is rapid, and her symptoms overlap with symptoms typical of pregnancy.
For the methodology, it was decided to carry out a bibliographic review of different recent articles to obtain the most up-to-date information at the time of preparing this document.
With the help of the data collection carried out in conjunction with the analysis thereof, by briefly summarizing the clinical differences and the diagnostic methodology of choice for the most frequent causes, within the recommendations an adequate directed complete clinical history is made, together with a thorough physical examination due to the difficulty in abdominal examination of a pregnant patient, one can choose from the differential diagnoses of the most common etiologies mentioned in the article in a summarized way to perform laboratory tests oriented and define the cases where surgical intervention is necessary due to increased risk for one or both parts of the binomial.
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