Key result
Emergency open-heart mitral commissurotomy successfully treated intractable pulmonary edema in a pregnant woman at 7 months gestation, resulting in a term delivery of a healthy baby.
Population
1 32-year-old woman in her 7th month of pregnancy with intractable pulmonary edema due to mitral restenosis
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
until delivery (term)
Authors
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May inform refractory mitral stenosis management in pregnancy; leaves open generalizability and optimal strategies in prospective cohorts.
Emergency open-heart mitral commissurotomy can be successfully performed during pregnancy with good maternal and fetal outcomes.
Salomon et al. (1975) studied this question. Emergency open-heart mitral commissurotomy successfully treated intractable pulmonary edema in a pregnant woman at 7 months gestation, resulting in a term delivery of a healthy baby.
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