Overview
- Suze Lopez, 41, learned she was pregnant during routine preoperative testing before planned surgery to remove a longstanding ovarian cyst.
- Days later she developed abdominal pain at a Dodgers game, and imaging at Cedars-Sinai showed an abdominal ectopic pregnancy with an empty uterus and a near‑term fetus near her liver.
- About 30 specialists from the hospital’s Level IV maternal care program performed a single operation that first removed the cyst and then delivered the baby.
- Doctors report the newborn, Ryu, weighed about 8 pounds and had very few health problems, and both mother and child are doing well.
- Clinicians call a pregnancy progressing this far outside the uterus almost unheard of, and the team controlled severe hemorrhage during delivery with rapid transfusion of 11 units of blood.