Miyaki Yasuko, Higami Tetsuya, Ishikawa Natsuya, Takagi Nobuyuki, Tachibana Kazutoshi, Hagiwara Takayuki
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
Kyobu Geka. 2015 Nov;68(12):985-9.
This report describes a case in which we treated a patient who developed infective endocarditis in the mitral valve at 28 weeks' gestation. The condition was resolved by performing mitral valvuloplasty 2 days after an emergency cesarean section. Although the patient was in a relatively stable period at 32 weeks' gestation, the mother had an extremely high risk of embolism;thus, emergency surgery was required. We believe that an accurate diagnosis in a timely manner and a valvuloplasty shortly after cesarean section saved the life of the mother and child.