Successful medical treatment of a hepatic pregnancy: a case report

BackgroundHepatic pregnancy is a rare form of abdominal pregnancy, often documented only as case reports.Case presentationWe report here the case of a 24-year-old African woman, gravida 4 para 3, presenting with right upper quadrant pains and metrorrhagia after amenorrhea of 8 weeks 5 days. Elements in favor of the diagnosis of hepatic pregnancy were her clinical presentation, the kinetics of β-human chorionic gonadotropin titers, and the …