{"pk":17130,"title":"Molar Pregnancy in the Emergency Department","subtitle":null,"abstract":"A 15-year-old female presented to the emergency department with complaints of vaginal bleeding. She was pale, anxious, cool and clammy with tachycardic, thready peripheral pulses and hemoglobin of 2.4g/dL. Her abdomen was gravid appearing, approximately early to mid-second trimester in size. Pelvic examination revealed 2 cm open cervical os with spontaneous discharge of blood, clots and a copious amount of champagne-colored grapelike spongy material. After 2L boluses of normal saline and two units of crossmatched blood, patient was transported to the operating room. Surgical pathology confirmed a complete hydatidiform mole.\n\n\n[West J Emerg Med. 2009;10(4):295-296.]","language":"en","license":{"name":"none","short_name":"none","text":"","url":"http://google.com"},"keywords":[{"word":"Hydatidiform mole"},{"word":"molar pregnancy"},{"word":"emergency department"},{"word":"case report"}],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/569107db","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Lori","middle_name":"","last_name":"Masterson","name_suffix":"","institution":"Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Resurrection Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Shu","middle_name":"B.","last_name":"Chan","name_suffix":"","institution":"Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Resurrection Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Bryan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bluhm","name_suffix":"","institution":"Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Resurrection Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2008-11-03T08:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2008-11-03T08:00:00Z","date_published":"2009-11-01T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/17130/galley/8653/download/"}]}