Cesarean section in severe double valvular disease

Ilkjaer, S.; Jakobsen, C.J.

Ugeskrift for Laeger 158(18): 2552-2553

1996


ISSN/ISBN: 0041-5782
PMID: 8686010
Document Number: 468337
During pregnancy haemodynamic changes are a stress to the cardiovascular system. Women with previously asymptomatic cardiovascular disease may develop life-threatening cardiac failure because of the extra demands of pregnancy. Early diagnosis, close control and treatment during pregnancy, delivery and the postpartum period are essential. We report a case where a woman with a mitral stenosis and insufficiency of the mitral and aortic valves gave birth to a child by caesarian section.

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