title: [From premature birth to cardiac surgery - severe heart failure due to infective endocarditis in pregnancy - a case report].
abstract: A 25-year-old woman, gravida 2, para 1, without any previous medical history was admitted to the hospital because of the signs and symptoms of fetal distress. After a caesarean section the woman developed an acute heart failure. Echocardiography demonstrated massive vegetations attached to aortic and mitral valves with their destruction. Surgical treatment was performed immediately. The postoperative period was complicated by chronic atrioventricular third degree heart block, requiring implantation of a pacemaker. Finally the woman was discharged from hospital and is followed regularly in the out-patient cardiac clinic.
authors.affiliation: Katedra i Klinika Kardiologii, Nadciśnienia Tetniczego i Chorób Wewnetrznych, II Wydział Lekarski, Warszawski Uniwersytet Medyczny, Wojewódzki Szpital Bródnowski, Warszawa. kamilaadach@wp.pl
authors.forename: Kamila
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Adach
authors.forename: Edyta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wiśniewska
authors.forename: Włodzimierz
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Gierlak
authors.forename: Marek
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kuch
authors.forename: Joanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Syska-Sumińska
authors.forename: Marcin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Konopka
authors.forename: Wojciech
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Dyk
authors.forename: Beata
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Osuch
authors.forename: Mirosław
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dłuzniewski
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000382:microbiology / Q000628:therapy*; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000382:microbiology / Q000628:therapy*; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000382:microbiology / Q000628:therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome