Case Report (n=1)
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Primary pulmonary hypertension can present postpartum with severe dyspnea and requires prompt diagnosis and management with pulmonary vasodilators.
Primary pulmonary hypertension is a rare disorder and rarely present in pregnant woman, but it make high risk of maternal morbidity and mortality. When a woman with subclinical primary pulmonary hypertension is pregnant, physiologic increase in maternal plasma volume aggravates pulmonary pressure cause cardiac arrest and maternal death. We diagnosed primary pulmonary hypertension in parous woman who didn't present at any symptom during pregnancy but had dyspnea 7 days after preterm vaginal delivery at 30 weeks 6 days. We report this case with brief review of literatures.
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Choi et al. (2012) conducted a case report in Primary pulmonary hypertension (n=1). Medical management (oxygen, fraxiparin, spironolactone, torasemide, bosentan) was evaluated on Clinical improvement and survival.
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