Background: Placenta percreta, accreta, increta and transcreta are abnormal placentation adherence (APA), significantly associated with high maternal morbidity and mortality. When APA is suspected antenatally there are two current recommended alternatives: a radical treatment by planned cesarean-hysterectomy or a conservative management leaving the placenta in place with secondary uterine devascularization by embolisation, in aim to preserve fertility but at the cost of heavy monitoring and possibly severe complications and secondary hysterectomy. A third option could be considered when APA is antenatally diagnosed. This is a multidisciplinary planned management, consisting in per operative placental localization and delivery of the fetus via transverse uterine incision above the upper edge of the placenta. Then pelvic devascularization by inflation of internal iliac artery balloons preoperatively inserted is established and excision of the accreta part of the placenta followed by reconstruction of the uterine wall defect with healthy myometrium is performed.
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