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Successful pregnancy in a patient with heart failure secondary to aortic and mitral regurgitation
N Ohnishi1, A Imai, I Kawabata
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gifu University School of Medicine, Japan.
Journal of Medicine
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
In this report, maternal and fetal risks were evaluated in a pregnant patient who had no previously established heart valvular disease. A 41-old-year patient with aortic and mitral regurgitations suffered from progressive congestive heart failure during 20 weeks of gestation. She carried the pregnancy to a successful delivery at 31 weeks. During this time, sudden deterioration in the symptoms occurred, but both the fetal and maternal outcomes were uneventful. This experience of a good outcome may contribute to the future management of pregnancies associated with heart disease.