Cardiac catheterization under echocardiographic control in a pregnant woman
January 1981
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volume 71 pp 481-484.
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A 22 year old woman had signs of rheumatic mitral and aortic valve disease early in pregnancy. Cardiac catheterization was performed during her third month of pregnancy under two-dimensional echocardiographic control without the use of ionizing radiation. Severe mitral stenosis with mild aortic stenosis was found. Five cubic centimeters of 5 percent dextrose in water were injected by hand to obtain left ventriculograms and supravalvular aortograms of sufficient quality to diagnose valvular regurgitation. The use of "echo-catheterization" may have significant advantages in selected clinical situations.
Keywords
- Human
- Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
- Adult
- Female
- Pregnancy
- *Echocardiography
- Aortic Valve Stenosis/diagnosis
- Heart Catheterization/*methods
- Mitral Valve Stenosis/*diagnosis/surgery
- Pregnancy Complications/*diagnosis
Automatically Extracted Terms
- aortic
- valve
- catheter
- aortic valve
- echocardiographic
- patient
- 5 percent dextrose
- pregnancy
- catheterization
- pressure
- heart
- aortic root
- figure
- study
- stenosi
- regurgitation
- radiation
- fluoroscopy
- aortic valve leaflets
- aortic valve gradient
