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Mitral stenosis in pregnancy: the nursing challenge
Naacog'S Clinical Issues in Perinatal and Women'S Health Nursing
|January 1, 1990
Pregnancy in the patient with mitral stenosis may be complicated by pulmonary congestion/edema, atrial fibrillation, thromboembolic events, and intrauterine growth retardation. Combining both cardiac and obstetric principles with the bio/psycho/social focus of nursing is a challenge in the antepartum intrapartum and postpartum periods.
Pregnancy in the patient with mitral stenosis may be complicated by pulmonary congestion/edema, atrial fibrillation, thromboembolic events, and intrauterine growth retardation. Combining both cardiac and obstetric principles with the bio/psycho/social focus of nursing is a challenge in the antepartum intrapartum and postpartum periods.