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128 consecutive pregnant women with mitral stenosis at a tertiary referral obstetric unit in South Africa…
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High pulmonary edema risk in pregnant mitral stenosis patients warrants severity-based monitoring; leaves open optimal intervention thresholds pending prospective trials.
In pregnant women with mitral stenosis, maternal complications like pulmonary edema are common and strongly predicted by stenosis severity, though satisfactory outcomes can be achieved with balloon valvulotomy or conservative management.
Desai et al. (2000) studied this question.
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