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- Title
Hipertensión arterial pulmonar y embarazo a gran altura. Caso clínico.
- Authors
Viruez-Soto, José Antonio; Soliz-Hurtado, Marcelo; Zavala-Barrios, Berenice; Briones-Garduño, Jesús Carlos; de León-Ponce, Manuel Antonio Díaz
- Abstract
Pulmonary hypertension has been traditionally classified in two categories: primary or secondary pulmonary hypertension, based in associated causes or risk factors; although, during the Second World Symposium in Pulmonary Hypertension held in Evian (France, 1998), a new classification was developed, with the objective of individualize the different categories of pulmonary hypertension sharing pathologic features, hemodynamic characteristics and similar treatment and nowadays this classification includes five well distinguished types of pulmonary hypertension. We relate the case of an obstetric patient with severe pulmonary hypertension at high altitude, fortunately with favorable evolution. Patients with congenital cardiac disease can become symptomatic in front of a stressful event such as pregnancy. This is one the few cases in literature about congenital cardiac disease with severe pulmonary hypertension in an obstetric patient, with a favorable evolution of the maternal fetal couple.
- Publication
Revista Mexicana de Anestesiología, 2016, Vol 39, Issue 4, p278
- ISSN
0484-7903
- Publication type
Article