title: Acute hypertensive pulmonary edema after Cesarean section in a patient with an antepartum myocardial infarction -A case report-.
abstract: We report a case of 29-year-old, morbidly obese, diabetic primigravida who had undergone previously primary percutaneous coronary intervention with stent placement for an inferior wall myocardial infarction at 10 weeks of gestation. She remained asymptomatic with medication during the remainder of her pregnancy, but preoperative echocardiography revealed left ventricular dilation and a restrictive diastolic dysfunction with a preserved ejection fraction (46%). She developed acute pulmonary edema associated with hypertension after an elective Cesarean delivery under continuous epidural anesthesia despite the meticulous restriction of fluid.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, School of Medicine, Konyang University, Daejeon, Korea.
authors.forename: Sung Mee
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: Eun Su
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Young Su
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Chun Woo
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Keum Won
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Po Soon
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Kang