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Severe maternal morbidity and fetal mortality caused by a diagnostic Swan-Ganz procedure: a case report
A B Crane-Elders1, J G Nijhuis, P W van Dongen
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
An eclamptic primigravid patient is presented in whom central monitoring by a Swan-Ganz pulmonary artery catheter led to a series of complications, including the Mendelson's syndrome of necrotisizing pneumonia, resulting in severe maternal morbidity and in fetal mortality.
An eclamptic primigravid patient is presented in whom central monitoring by a Swan-Ganz pulmonary artery catheter led to a series of complications, including the Mendelson's syndrome of necrotisizing pneumonia, resulting in severe maternal morbidity and in fetal mortality.