Permanent pacemaker implantation in a pregnant woman with rheumatic mitral valve disease.
Rodrigo Barbosa Esper, Remo Holanda de Mendonça Furtado, Flávio Tarasoutchi, Guilherme Sobreira Spina, Max Grinberg, Walkiria Samuel Avila
Instituto do Coração, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia 2009 MayWe describe a rare case of permanent pacemaker implantation in a pregnant woman with rheumatic mitral valve disease previously undergoing percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty. She presented symptomatic advanced atrioventricular block of non-reversible cause and manifest in the third trimester of gestation.
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Rodrigo Barbosa Esper, Remo Holanda de Mendonça Furtado, Flávio Tarasoutchi, Guilherme Sobreira Spina, Max Grinberg, Walkiria Samuel Avila. Permanent pacemaker implantation in a pregnant woman with rheumatic mitral valve disease. Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia. 2009 May;92(5):e32-5, e59-62
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