Successful vaginal delivery in a woman with tetralogy of Fallot and pulmonary atresia after four cardiac operations.
We describe a woman with tetralogy of Fallot and pulmonary atresia, with a history of four previous cardiac operations, who decided to bear her own children. Under interdisciplinary counselling and the appropriate medical care, she underwent a successful vaginal delivery and had a healthy baby.
Department of Paediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre, Athens, Greece. meletis_kanakis@yahoo.gr
Meletios A
MA
Kanakis
Fotios A
FA
Mitropoulos
Christos
C
Katsetos
Christos
C
Ntellos
D000328:Adult; D006332:Cardiomegaly; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000601:surgery; D018633:Pulmonary Atresia / Q000601:surgery*; D013771:Tetralogy of Fallot / Q000601:surgery*