Successful pregnancy and delivery can be achieved in patients with rheumatic heart disease and a prosthetic valve despite complications, requiring careful multidisciplinary management.
May support multidisciplinary management in prosthetic valve pregnancies with complications; case report leaves generalizability open.
The clinical course, through pregnancy and delivery, of a 30-year-old woman with rheumatic heart disease and a prosthetic mitral valve is presented. Despite maternal development of congestive cardiac failure and atrial fibrillation, the delivery of a healthy infant was achieved. The problems encountered during pregnancy and delivery in patients with rheumatic heart disease and prosthetic valves are discussed. These include the management of long-term anticoagulant therapy, prophylaxis against rheumatic fever and subacute bacterial endocarditis, impaired cardiac function, atrial fibrillation, breast feeding, and contraception as they relate both to the mother and the fetus and infant.
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