Krugner-Higby L, Luck M, Hartley D, Crispen HM, Lubach GR, Coe CL. High-risk pregnancy in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta): a case of ectopic, abdominal pregnancy with birth of a live, term infant, and a case of gestational diabetes complicated by pre-eclampsia.
J Med Primatol 2009;
38:252-6. [PMID:
19490364 DOI:
10.1111/j.1600-0684.2009.00349.x]
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Abstract
BACKGROUND
Cases of abdominal pregnancy, in the form of intra-abdominal mummified fetuses, have been described in nonhuman primates. Gestational diabetes and pre-eclampsia are common pregnancy complications in women.
METHODS
Two timed-bred rhesus monkeys had high-risk pregnancies, an abdominal pregnancy with delivery of a live term infant, and a case of gestational diabetes that later developed pre-eclampsia.
RESULTS
The monkey that had abdominal pregnancy later died from septic peritonitis. The monkey had a colonic adenocarcinoma that may have allowed leakage of intestinal contents into the abdomen. Her infant was fostered to another female and survived. The monkey with gestational diabetes and pre-eclampsia was treated with a regimen similar to that used in women, and a live infant was delivered at day 157 of gestation by Caesarian section.
CONCLUSION
These cases underscore the value of timed-breeding and the similarities between pregnancy complications in women and in nonhuman primates.
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