Open heart surgery during pregnancy--case report.
A case of a 32-year-old woman in her 7th month of pregnancy presented with intractable pulmonary edema due to mitral restenosis is reported. Open-heart mitral commissurotomy was done as an emergency procedure. She continued pregnancy to term after the operation and delivered a healthy female baby. The literature related to "the closed" and "open" heart surgery during pregnancy has been reviewed.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008722:Methods; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000601:surgery*; D011263:Pregnancy Trimester, Third; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000209:etiology