A Pregnant Woman With Severe Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis

Oren Yagel, MD; Roie Alter, MD; Batel Nissan, MD; Donna R. Zwas, MD, MPH; Joshua I. Rosenbloom, MD; Ophir Eyal, MD; Mordechai Golomb, MD; David Planer, MD, MS; Gabby Elbaz-Greener, MD, MHA, DRCPSC

JACC: Case Reports (Feb 2024)

A Pregnant Woman With Severe Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis

Oren Yagel, MD,
Roie Alter, MD,
Batel Nissan, MD,
Donna R. Zwas, MD, MPH,
Joshua I. Rosenbloom, MD,
Ophir Eyal, MD,
Mordechai Golomb, MD,
David Planer, MD, MS,
Gabby Elbaz-Greener, MD, MHA, DRCPSC

Affiliations

Oren Yagel, MD: Department of Cardiology, Hadassah Medical Center, The Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Roie Alter, MD: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hadassah Medical Center, The Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Batel Nissan, MD: Department of Cardiology, Hadassah Medical Center, The Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Donna R. Zwas, MD, MPH: Department of Cardiology, Hadassah Medical Center, The Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Joshua I. Rosenbloom, MD: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hadassah Medical Center, The Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Ophir Eyal, MD: Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Hadassah Medical Center, The Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Mordechai Golomb, MD: Department of Cardiology, Hadassah Medical Center, The Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
David Planer, MD, MS: Department of Cardiology, Hadassah Medical Center, The Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Gabby Elbaz-Greener, MD, MHA, DRCPSC: Department of Cardiology, Hadassah Medical Center, The Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; Address for correspondence: Dr Gabby Elbaz Greener, Department of Cardiology, Hadassah Medical Center, Room 114, Kalman Ya’akov st, 91220, Jerusalem, Israel.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 29, no. 3
p. 102205

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A 31-year-old woman with end-stage kidney disease and with a bicuspid aortic valve presented with acute heart failure in the second trimester of pregnancy. The patient received a diagnosis of severe aortic stenosis and chose to continue the pregnancy against medical advice. Following a multidisciplinary team consultation, she underwent urgent transcatheter aortic valve replacement.

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ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
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