1. A 19-Year-Old Pregnant Woman With Pulmonary Hypertension With Progressive Dyspnea
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Tijen Alkan Bozkaya, Burçak Kılıçkıran Avcı, Özge Özden Tok, Zeki Öngen, and Afksendiyos Kalangos
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Adult ,Postnatal Care ,Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine ,Cardiac Catheterization ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Computed Tomography Angiography ,Hypertension, Pulmonary ,Pregnancy, High-Risk ,Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular ,Cardiomyopathy ,Case presentation ,Disease ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Pregnancy ,Humans ,Medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Family history ,Heart Failure ,Cesarean Section ,business.industry ,Cardiovascular Surgical Procedures ,Anomalous Left Coronary Artery ,Stroke Volume ,medicine.disease ,Pulmonary hypertension ,Dyspnea ,Treatment Outcome ,030228 respiratory system ,Echocardiography ,Gestation ,Female ,Cardiomyopathies ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction ,business - Abstract
Case Presentation A 19-year-old pregnant woman at week 32 of gestation was referred to our clinic with progressive shortness of breath for the further evaluation and treatment of high-risk pregnancy. Her complaints had been existing since her childhood. Two years prior to her admission, she had been diagnosed with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction due to cardiomyopathy and associated pulmonary hypertension. The patient had no family history of any cardiac disease. She had never smoked or drunk alcohol. Her clinical condition had deteriorated progressively with the pregnancy.
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- 2021
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