Kristel Van Calsteren

2025

Interventional radiology for prevention and management of postpartum haemorrhage: a single centre retrospective cohort study.

Archives of gynecology and obstetrics ·doi:10.1007/s00404-024-07595-y

PurposePostpartum haemorrhage (PPH) remains a leading cause of maternal death despite current medical management. Surgical interventions are still needed for refractory bleeding. Interventional radiology (IR) can be a successful intermediar…

2012

Physiologic variations of serum tumor markers in gynecological malignancies during pregnancy: a systematic review.

BMC medicine ·doi:10.1186/1741-7015-10-86

BackgroundRecent insights provide support for the treatment of cancer during pregnancy, a coincidence that poses both mother and fetus at risk. Our aim was to critically review studies on the physiologic variations during pregnancy, the mos…

article 2011

Polypoid endometriosis of the bladder during pregnancy mimicking urachal carcinoma

Ultrasound in obstetrics & gynecology : the official journal of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology ·doi:10.1002/uog.8985

We report a case of polypoid bladder endometriosis in pregnancy. Diagnostic workup showed a vesicouterine well-vascularized polypoid mass, suspicious for malignancy. During pregnancy, the mass was surgically resected with safe oncological m…