1. Closed Mitral Commissurotomy During Pregnancy in East Africa.
- Author
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Kramer R, Quinn R, Odera A, Groom R, Boulanger N, Gunnoe E, and White R
- Subjects
- Africa, Eastern, Female, Humans, Mitral Valve Stenosis diagnosis, Pregnancy, Radiography, Thoracic, Young Adult, Cardiac Surgical Procedures methods, Mitral Valve surgery, Mitral Valve Stenosis surgery, Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular surgery
- Abstract
Cardiac surgeons traveling to East Africa on humanitarian surgical missions treat a large number of people of all ages with rheumatic heart disease. A patient with severe mitral stenosis with pulmonary edema in the second trimester of pregnancy was treated successfully with closed mitral commissurotomy in a hospital in rural Kenya. An operation from the late 1940s may regain prominence more than 70 years later in areas of the world with a high incidence of rheumatic heart disease and limited cardiology and cardiac surgery resources., (Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
- Published
- 2016
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