Emergency Aortic Valve Replacement in a 12-Week Pregnant Patient

Gijs J. van Steenbergen, MD; Queeny H.Y. Tsang, MD; Olivier W.H. van der Heijden, MD, PhD; Roland R.J. van Kimmenade, MD, PhD; Sjoerd Bouwmeester, MD; Wilson W.L. Li, MD; Ad F.T.M. Verhagen, MD, PhD

JACC: Case Reports (Jan 2020)

Emergency Aortic Valve Replacement in a 12-Week Pregnant Patient

Gijs J. van Steenbergen, MD,
Queeny H.Y. Tsang, MD,
Olivier W.H. van der Heijden, MD, PhD,
Roland R.J. van Kimmenade, MD, PhD,
Sjoerd Bouwmeester, MD,
Wilson W.L. Li, MD,
Ad F.T.M. Verhagen, MD, PhD

Affiliations

Gijs J. van Steenbergen, MD: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Address for correspondence: Dr. Gijs J. van Steenbergen, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Radboud University Medical Centre, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Queeny H.Y. Tsang, MD: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Olivier W.H. van der Heijden, MD, PhD: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Roland R.J. van Kimmenade, MD, PhD: Department of Cardiology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Sjoerd Bouwmeester, MD: Department of Cardiology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Wilson W.L. Li, MD: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Ad F.T.M. Verhagen, MD, PhD: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 107 – 111

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Urgent cardiac surgery was performed in a pregnant woman at 12 weeks of gestation for prosthetic valve thrombosis as result of noncompliance to anticoagulation. With this report we emphasize the importance of proper anticoagulation regimens and follow-up. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)

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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