A pregnancy complicated with Fechtner syndrome: A case report

A 21-year-old woman was diagnosed with Fechtner syndrome at 15 weeks gestat ion. She had a familial history of this disorder; her mother, two siblings and maternal grandmother were also affected. She presented with neither ble eding from the genital tract nor symptoms suggestive of placental abruption . Labor progressed uneventfully and resulted in the birth of a healthy fema le infant weighing 3436 g at 41 weeks of gestation. The puerperium was unev entful for both mother and infant. (C) 2000 Tohoku University Medical Press .