Regional anesthesia, guided by Doppler echocardiography and pulmonary artery catheterization, can be safely employed without complications in pregnant patients with aortic stenosis.
May support regional anesthesia in pregnant aortic stenosis; leaves open confirmation in larger prospective studies.
The authors describe 5 cases in which Doppler echocardiography was used for assessing aortic stenosis and pulmonary artery catheterization for guiding hemodynamic care. Regional anesthesia was employed without complications.
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Easterling et al. (1989) studied this question.