From recussitation to birth: double valve replacement due to infective endocarditis in pregnant woman: A Case Report

Abstract

Pregnancy carries an increased risk for mother and the fetus in patients with car-diac disease. In this case we represent a woman with gestational age of 16 we-eks, who was resuscitated and underwent double valve replacement with longer cardiopulmonary bypass times (112 minutes of cross clamping and 133 minutes of perfusion time) due to infective endocarditis and decompensed heart failure. After the surgery at 38th gestational weeks, she gave birth uneventfully to a he-althy child whose Apgar score was 9 at first and fifth minutes of the delivery. He-art surgery during pregnancy can be performed with acceptable maternal and fe-tal mortality rates. These rates may even be lower if strict protocols performed during every step of surgery and after.

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