Pregnancy and delivery in woman with implantable cardioverter-defibrillator: what we should know

We report the observation of a 25-year-old pregnant patient of 39 weeks of amenorrhea proposed for elective cesarean section. This patient suffers from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy since the age of 12. She has an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). The peculiarities of the ICD in the partur...

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Autores principales: Bouslama, Mohamed Amine, Ferhi, Fehmi, Hacheni, Faten, Ons, Kaabia, Abdeljelil, Khlifi, Jazia, Khaled Ben, Khairi, Hedi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6295306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30574255
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2018.30.236.9995
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Sumario:We report the observation of a 25-year-old pregnant patient of 39 weeks of amenorrhea proposed for elective cesarean section. This patient suffers from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy since the age of 12. She has an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). The peculiarities of the ICD in the parturient and the perioperative management of the patient are being reported in this paper.

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