Key result
General anesthesia for emergency lower segment cesarean section in a pregnant patient with complete heart block and pregnancy-induced hypertension resulted in good maternal and fetal outcomes.
Case Report (n=1)
General anesthesia can be safely utilized for emergency cesarean section in parturients with congenital complete heart block and pregnancy-induced hypertension.
Pregnancy complicated with complete heart block is rare and usually required termination of pregnancy in the past. Improvement in medical technology in the form of cardiac pacing has allowed taking these women to term. Overall, maternal and fetal outcome is not affected in asymptomatic cases. We report here an unbooked, pregnant patient presented at 38+ weeks with complete heart block and pregnancy-induced hypertension for emergency lower segment cesarean section (LSCS). Emergency LSCS was performed under general anesthesia. Maternal and fetal outcome was good. How to cite this article Mamatha R, Sowmya MJ, Venkateshmurthy, Sahajananda H, Karthik GS. Anesthetic Management of a Parturient with Congenital Complete Heart Block posted for Emergency Lower Segment Cesarean Section. J Med Sci 2015;1(4):74-76.
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Karthik et al. (2015) conducted a case report in Congenital complete heart block and pregnancy-induced hypertension (n=1). General anesthesia was evaluated on Maternal and fetal outcome. General anesthesia for emergency lower segment cesarean section in a pregnant patient with complete heart block and pregnancy-induced hypertension resulted in good maternal and fetal outcomes.
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