title: Percutaneous triple-valve balloon valvulotomy in a pregnant woman using intracardiac echocardiography: case report.
abstract: The management of multivalvular heart disease during pregnancy is difficult, as no guidelines currently exist. Herein is reported the first case of percutaneous triple-valve balloon valvulotomy guided by intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) in a pregnant woman with multivalvular rheumatic heart disease. ICE provided excellent imaging and guidance, which resulted in a low radiation exposure to the mother and fetus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Sing-Chien
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Yap
authors.forename: Peter P T
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: de Jaegere
authors.forename: Jurgen M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Ligthart
authors.forename: Patrick W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Serruys
authors.forename: Jolien W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Roos-Hesselink
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome