Treatment of Severe Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis During Pregnancy

Lindsay G. Panah, MD; Jared O’Leary, MD; Melissa Levack, MD; Kaitlyn Brennan, DO; Sarah Osmundson, MD; Jennifer Thompson, MD; Kathryn Lindley, MD

JACC: Case Reports (Dec 2023)

Treatment of Severe Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis During Pregnancy

Lindsay G. Panah, MD,
Jared O’Leary, MD,
Melissa Levack, MD,
Kaitlyn Brennan, DO,
Sarah Osmundson, MD,
Jennifer Thompson, MD,
Kathryn Lindley, MD

Affiliations

Lindsay G. Panah, MD: Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Address for correspondence: Dr Lindsay Panah, Ascension St. Vincent Indianapolis, 1215 21st Avenue South, Medical Center East, Suite 5209, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA.
Jared O’Leary, MD: Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Melissa Levack, MD: Department of Cardiac Surgery, Section of Surgical Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Kaitlyn Brennan, DO: Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Sarah Osmundson, MD: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Jennifer Thompson, MD: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Kathryn Lindley, MD: Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 28
p. 102134

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A 35-year-old woman presented at 22 weeks gestation with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis with a mean gradient of 94 mm Hg and an aortic valve area of 0.53 cm2. After multidisciplinary discussion, she underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement during pregnancy.

Published in JACC: Case Reports

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
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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