OVARIAN TORSION AND OVARIOPEXY IN PREGNANCY

A patient, aged 28 years and 33 weeks of pregnancy, admitted to our center with severe left lower quadrant pain. Ovarian torsion due to a 9 cm left ovary cyst was prediagnosed. The patient underwent general anesthesia and was corrected for torsioned ovary, blood was supplied, and the ovary was successfully fixed to the uterus by ovariopexy in order to avoid recurrence of torsion. The baby was born with a cesarean section. The patient was called to the control on the fifteenth day postop and the blood flow was re-evaluated by doppler ultrasonography. Although antepartum surgery is considered safe, abdominal surgery carries some risks for a pregnant woman and the fetus. Therefore, the clinical decision should be made according to the characteristics of the adnexal mass, the pregnancy week, pregnancy expectancy and reperfusion of the ovary