{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,16]],"date-time":"2026-06-16T22:13:59Z","timestamp":1781648039993,"version":"3.54.5"},"reference-count":66,"publisher":"Elsevier BV","issue":"1","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2000,2,1]],"date-time":"2000-02-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":949363200000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/tdm\/userlicense\/1.0\/"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2000,2]]},"DOI":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2002,7,28]],"date-time":"2002-07-28T21:49:59Z","timestamp":1027892999000},"page":"89-102","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":38,"title":["The acute abdomen and the obstetrician"],"prefix":"10.1053","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"V.","family":"Sivanesaratnam","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"78","reference":[{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF1","series-title":"Clinical Physiology in Obstetrics","first-page":"173","article-title":"Weight changes in pregnancy","author":"Hytten","year":"1991"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF2","series-title":"Williams' Obstetrics","year":"1993"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1359","DOI":"10.1001\/jama.1932.02730420017007","article-title":"Appendicitis in pregnancy with changes in position and axis of the normal appendix in pregnancy","volume":"98","author":"Baer","year":"1932","journal-title":"Journal of the American Medical Association"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1044","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1471-0528.1963.tb15051.x","article-title":"Inferior vena caval pressure in late pregnancy","volume":"70","author":"Scott","year":"1963","journal-title":"Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Commonwealth"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF5","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"19","DOI":"10.1093\/oxfordjournals.bmb.a070587","article-title":"Cardiovascular dynamics in pregnancy and labour","volume":"24","author":"Kerr","year":"1968","journal-title":"British Medical Bulletin"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF6","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"797","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.1.5699.797","article-title":"Supine hypotension syndrome during caesarian section","volume":"1","author":"Courtney","year":"1970","journal-title":"British Medical Journal"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF7","series-title":"Clinical Physiology in Obstetrics","first-page":"39","article-title":"The haematological system","author":"Letsky","year":"1991"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF8","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"388","DOI":"10.1016\/0002-9378(70)90364-9","article-title":"Serum protein concentrations in pregnancy. 1. Concentration in maternal serum","volume":"106","author":"Mendenhall","year":"1970","journal-title":"American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF9","first-page":"175","article-title":"Ovulation induction with clomiphene and the rise in heterotopic pregnancies","volume":"35","author":"Glassner","year":"1990","journal-title":"Journal of Reproductive Medicine"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF10","series-title":"Munro Kerr's Operative Obstetrics","article-title":"Pelvic tumours; other surgical complications in pregnancy, labour and puerperium","author":"Myerscough","year":"1982"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF11","series-title":"The Critically Ill Obstetric Patient","first-page":"483","article-title":"Haematological problems associated with the critically ill obstetric patient","author":"Letsky","year":"1984"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF12","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"159","DOI":"10.1016\/S0002-9378(16)32330-4","article-title":"Syndrome of haemolysis, elevated liver enzymes and low platelet count. A severe consequence of hypertension in pregnancy","volume":"142","author":"Weinstein","year":"1982","journal-title":"American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF13","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"311","DOI":"10.1016\/0002-9378(90)90376-I","article-title":"The HELLP syndrome\u2014much ado about nothing?","volume":"162","author":"Sibai","year":"1990","journal-title":"American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF14","series-title":"The Critically Ill Obstetric Patient","first-page":"400","article-title":"Hepatic failure in pregnancy","author":"Gazzard","year":"1984"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF15","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"763","DOI":"10.1097\/00006254-197611000-00001","article-title":"Rupture of liver associated with pregnancy: a review of the literature and report of 2 cases","volume":"31","author":"Bis","year":"1976","journal-title":"Obstetrical and Gynaecological Survey"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF16","first-page":"409","article-title":"Acute pyelonephritis in pregnancy, an anterospective study","volume":"57","author":"Gilstrap","year":"1981","journal-title":"Obstetrics and Gynecology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF17","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"709","DOI":"10.1016\/S0002-9378(15)33316-0","article-title":"Renal infection and pregnancy outcome","volume":"141","author":"Gilstrap","year":"1981","journal-title":"American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF18","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"925","DOI":"10.1016\/S0140-6736(66)90534-4","article-title":"The incidence of urinary tract infection in 5000 pregnant women","volume":"1","author":"Little","year":"1966","journal-title":"Lancet"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF19","first-page":"546","article-title":"Single dose antimicrobial therapy for asymptomatic bacteriuria during pregnancy","volume":"59","author":"Harris","year":"1982","journal-title":"Obstetrics and Gynecology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF20","first-page":"374","article-title":"Intestinal obstruction in pregnancy","volume":"43","author":"Beck","year":"1974","journal-title":"Obstetrics and Gynecology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF21","first-page":"170","article-title":"Small bowel obstruction in pregnancy: a review and report of four cases","volume":"49","author":"Hill","year":"1977","journal-title":"Obstetrics and Gynecology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF22","first-page":"399","article-title":"Volvulus complicating pregnancy and the puerperium","volume":"12","author":"Harer","year":"1958","journal-title":"Obstetrics and Gynecology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF23","first-page":"82","article-title":"Volvulus of the small bowel complicating pregnancy","volume":"14","author":"Wenetick","year":"1973","journal-title":"Journal of Reproductive Medicine"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF24","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"99","DOI":"10.1016\/0028-2243(86)90095-X","article-title":"Intestinal obstruction following previous myomectomy and use of beta-sympathomimetics in pregnancy","volume":"22","author":"Rachagan","year":"1986","journal-title":"European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynaecology, and Reproductive Biology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF25","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"384","DOI":"10.1016\/S0002-9610(05)80910-9","article-title":"Intestinal obstruction complicating pregnancy","volume":"164","author":"Perdue","year":"1992","journal-title":"American Journal of Surgery"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF26","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"671","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.2.4579.671","article-title":"Large intestinal colic due to sympathetic deprivation. A new clinical syndrome","volume":"2","author":"Ogilvie","year":"1948","journal-title":"British Medical Journal"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF27","first-page":"711","article-title":"An evaluation of caecal size in impending perforation of the caecum","volume":"103","author":"Lowman","year":"1956","journal-title":"Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF28","first-page":"44","article-title":"Pseudo-obstruction of the colon","volume":"133","author":"Wanebo","year":"1971","journal-title":"Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF29","first-page":"131","article-title":"Acute cholecystitis in pregnancy","volume":"69","author":"Landers","year":"1987","journal-title":"Obstetrics and Gynecology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF30","series-title":"Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynaecology","first-page":"263","article-title":"Surgical conditions in pregnancy","author":"Moore","year":"1998"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF31","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"661","DOI":"10.1016\/0002-9378(82)90434-3","article-title":"Gall bladder disease in pregnancy","volume":"6","author":"Stauffer","year":"1982","journal-title":"American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF32","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"306","DOI":"10.1097\/00003081-199406000-00008","article-title":"Gastrointestinal surgical conditions during pregnancy","volume":"37","author":"Sharp","year":"1994","journal-title":"Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF33","first-page":"291","article-title":"Gastrointestinal surgical conditions during pregnancy","volume":"46","author":"Sharp","year":"1975","journal-title":"Obstetrics and Gynecology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF34","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"292","DOI":"10.1016\/0002-9610(89)90613-2","article-title":"Aggressive management of cholecystitis in pregnancy","volume":"154","author":"Dixon","year":"1987","journal-title":"American Journal of Surgery"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF35","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"625","DOI":"10.1016\/S0002-9610(05)80448-9","article-title":"Laporoscopic cholecystectomy in pregnancy","volume":"165","author":"Elerding","year":"1993","journal-title":"American Journal of Surgery"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF36","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"98","DOI":"10.1007\/s004649900306","article-title":"The acute abdomen in the pregnant patient. Is there a role for laparoscopy?","volume":"11","author":"Gurbuz","year":"1997","journal-title":"Surgical Endoscopy"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF37","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"585","DOI":"10.1097\/00006254-199009000-00004","article-title":"Acute fatty liver of pregnancy","volume":"45","author":"Watson","year":"1990","journal-title":"Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF38","series-title":"Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynaecology","first-page":"261","article-title":"Medical complications of pregnancy","author":"Nuwayhid","year":"1998"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF39","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"557","DOI":"10.1016\/S0002-9378(15)30026-0","article-title":"Haematoma of the rectus abdominus muscle in pregnancy","volume":"46","author":"Torpin","year":"1943","journal-title":"American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF40","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"375","DOI":"10.3109\/00016348409155536","article-title":"Case report: pathological torsion of the pregnant uterus","volume":"63","author":"Crona","year":"1984","journal-title":"Acta Obstetrica et Gynaecologica Scandinavica"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF41","first-page":"40","article-title":"Appendicitis during pregnancy","volume":"50","author":"Babaknia","year":"1977","journal-title":"Obstetrics and Gynecology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF42","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1938","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.1.5190.1938","article-title":"Acute appendicitis in pregnancy","volume":"1","author":"Black","year":"1960","journal-title":"British Medical Journal"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF43","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"571","DOI":"10.1016\/S0002-9610(05)80748-2","article-title":"Acute appendicitis in the pregnant patient","volume":"160","author":"Tamir","year":"1990","journal-title":"American Journal of Surgery"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF44","first-page":"295","article-title":"Acute appendicitis in pregnancy. A review of 52 cases","volume":"81","author":"Al-Mulhim","year":"1996","journal-title":"International Surgery"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF45","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1362","DOI":"10.1001\/archsurg.1985.01390360028007","article-title":"Acute appendicitis during pregnancy: diagnosis and management","volume":"120","author":"Horowitz","year":"1985","journal-title":"Archives of Surgery"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF46","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"801","DOI":"10.1097\/00003081-198312000-00005","article-title":"Appendicitis in pregnancy","volume":"26","author":"Weingold","year":"1983","journal-title":"Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF47","first-page":"801","article-title":"Perforative appendicitis complicating pregnancy","volume":"26","author":"Babler","year":"1908","journal-title":"Journal of the American Medical Association"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF48","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1194","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.2.4741.1194","article-title":"A sign for differentiating uterine from extrauterine complication of pregnancy","volume":"2","author":"Alders","year":"1951","journal-title":"British Medical Journal"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF49","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"31","DOI":"10.1016\/S0020-7292(98)00064-2","article-title":"Acute abdomen in pregnancy","volume":"62","author":"El-Amin Ali","year":"1998","journal-title":"International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF50","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"47","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1471-0528.1980.tb04425.x","article-title":"Pancreatitis, pregnancy, and gallstones","volume":"87","author":"McKay","year":"1980","journal-title":"British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF51","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"9","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1479-828X.1976.tb02647.x","article-title":"Acute pancreatitis in pregnancy","volume":"16","author":"Sivanesaratnam","year":"1976","journal-title":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF52","first-page":"216","article-title":"Pregnancy pancreatitis","volume":"56","author":"Berk","year":"1971","journal-title":"American Journal of Gastroenterology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF53","series-title":"Clinical Physiology in Obstetrics","first-page":"179","article-title":"Nutrition","author":"Hytten","year":"1991"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF54","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"61","DOI":"10.1016\/0002-9610(58)90873-0","article-title":"Atypical symptom sign complex of acute pancreatitis","volume":"96","author":"Donhauser","year":"1958","journal-title":"American Journal of Surgery"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF55","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"747","DOI":"10.1016\/0002-9378(80)90451-2","article-title":"The amylase\/creatinine clearance ratio in normal pregnancy and pregnancies complicated by pancreatitis, hyperemesis gravidarum and toxaemia","volume":"136","author":"Devore","year":"1980","journal-title":"American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF56","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"281","DOI":"10.1097\/00006254-197305000-00001","article-title":"Acute pancreatitis in pregnancy: a review of 98 cases and a report of 8 new cases","volume":"28","author":"Wilkinson","year":"1973","journal-title":"Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF57","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"795","DOI":"10.1016\/0002-9610(66)90175-9","article-title":"Pancreatitis, a clinical review","volume":"111","author":"Romer","year":"1966","journal-title":"American Journal of Surgery"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF58","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"411","DOI":"10.5694\/j.1326-5377.1986.tb128413.x","article-title":"Intra-peritoneal haemorrhage from a ruptured corpus luteum. A cause for \u2018acute abdomen\u2019 in women","volume":"144","author":"Sivanesaratnam","year":"1986","journal-title":"Medical Journal of Australia"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF59","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"21","DOI":"10.1016\/0020-7292(89)90539-0","article-title":"Torsion of ovarian tumours: a clinico-pathological study","volume":"28","author":"Lee","year":"1989","journal-title":"International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF60","first-page":"46","article-title":"Ovarian cancer in pregnancy","volume":"24","author":"Sivanesaratnam","year":"1998","journal-title":"Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF61","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1254","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.1.4822.1254","article-title":"Peptic ulcer in women","volume":"1","author":"Clark","year":"1953","journal-title":"British Medical Journal"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF62","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"645","DOI":"10.1016\/0002-9610(54)90308-6","article-title":"Spontaneous intraperitoneal haemorrhage","volume":"88","author":"Wright","year":"1954","journal-title":"American Journal of Surgery"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF63","first-page":"26","article-title":"Physiology of the ovarian veins in pregnancy","volume":"1","author":"Hodgkinson","year":"1954","journal-title":"Obstetrics and Gynecology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF64","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1112","DOI":"10.1016\/S0002-9378(16)39178-5","article-title":"Haemorrhage from ruptured utero-ovarian veins during pregnancy","volume":"59","author":"Hodgkinson","year":"1950","journal-title":"American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF65","first-page":"627","article-title":"Splenic artery aneurysm rupture in pregnancy: a review and case report","volume":"50","author":"O'Grady","year":"1977","journal-title":"Obstetrics and Gynecology"},{"key":"10.1053\/beog.1999.0065_RF66","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"103","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.4.5936.103-e","article-title":"Ruptured aneurysm of the splenic artery in pregnancy","volume":"4","author":"Gibbens","year":"1974","journal-title":"British Medical Journal"}],"container-title":["Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/api.elsevier.com\/content\/article\/PII:S1521693499900652?httpAccept=text\/xml","content-type":"text\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/api.elsevier.com\/content\/article\/PII:S1521693499900652?httpAccept=text\/plain","content-type":"text\/plain","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2020,3,5]],"date-time":"2020-03-05T17:21:18Z","timestamp":1583428878000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S1521693499900652"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2000,2]]},"references-count":66,"journal-issue":{"issue":"1","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2000,2]]}},"alternative-id":["S1521693499900652"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1053\/beog.1999.0065","relation":{},"ISSN":["1521-6934"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1521-6934","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2000,2]]}}}