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General anaesthesia provides safe maternal and neonatal outcomes during caesarean in severe isolated pulmonary stenosis.
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General anaesthesia can be safely used for elective caesarean section in pregnant patients with severe pulmonary stenosis.
Supports general anaesthesia for caesarean in severe pulmonary stenosis; hypothesis-generating case report requiring larger studies before practice change.
Cardio circulatory changes associated with pregnancy result in a significant haemodynamic burden and lead to morbidity and even mortality in women with cardiac disease. We report a rare case of severe pulmonary stenosis who underwent elective caesarean section under general anaesthesia with satisfactory maternal and neonatal outcome.
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Sanikop et al. (2012) conducted a case report in Severe isolated pulmonary stenosis in pregnancy (n=1). General anaesthesia was evaluated on Maternal and neonatal outcome. General anaesthesia provided a safe and satisfactory maternal and neonatal outcome for a pregnant patient with severe isolated pulmonary stenosis undergoing an elective caesarean section.
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