title: Successful pregnancy in a patient with heart failure secondary to aortic and mitral regurgitation.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gifu University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ohnishi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Imai
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kawabata
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Itoh
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Itoh
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tamaya
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001022:Aortic Valve Insufficiency / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000503:physiopathology*