Closed Mitral Commissurotomy During Pregnancy in East Africa

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• 作者：Robert Kramer ; MD^a ; ^b ; ^{kramer@mmc.org" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Reed Quinn ; MD^a ; ^b ; Agneta Odera ; MD^c ; Robert Groom ; MS ; CCP^a ; Nancy Boulanger ; MD^d ; Eric Gunnoe ; MD^e ; Russell White ; MD^c
• 刊名：The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：November 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：102
• 期：5
• 页码：e419-e420
• 全文大小：438 K

文摘

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.