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Emergency mitral valve replacement in the setting of severe pulmonary hypertension and acute cardiovascular decompensation after evacuation of twins at fifteen weeks’ gestation
Abstract
A case of critical mitral stenosis with severe pulmonary hypertension in a twin pregnancy is presented. On therapeutic evacuation at 15 weeks' gestation the patient became critically unstable, necessitating emergency open heart surgery with mitral valve replacement.
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