Kristel Van Calsteren

ORCID: 0000-0002-2438-6783 · 3 papers in corpus
observational 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

PURPOSE: Postpartum 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 intermedi…

meta-analysis 2012
Physiologic variations of serum tumor markers in gynecological malignancies during pregnancy: a systematic review
BMC medicine ·doi:10.1186/1741-7015-10-86

BACKGROUND: Recent 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 m…

case-report 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…