Pulmonary venoocclusive disease in pregnancy
Tsou, E.; Waldhorn, R.E.; Kerwin, D.M.; Katz, S.; Patterson, J.A.
Obstetrics and Gynecology 64(2): 281-284
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0029-7844 PMID: 6738961 Document Number: 230493
A 23-year-old woman in her 27th week of gestation presented with clinical findings of progressive pulmonary hypertension. After cardiac catheterization she went into labor and was delivered by cesarean section. She died shortly thereafter from right heart failure. Pulmonary venoocclusive disease was found at autopsy. Hemodynamic changes during pregnancy, labor, delivery, and the postpartum period may have contributed to her deterioration and death. This is the first description of pulmonary venoocclusive disease in pregnancy.