Favorable response of Eisenmenger syndrome to inhaled nitric oxide during pregnancy

Article Abstract:

Nitric oxide appears to be effective in treating low blood levels of oxygen that can occur in people with Eisenmenger sydrome. This syndrome is characterized by a hole in the heart between the right and left ventricle. Patients also have high blood pressure in the pulmonary system, which causes blood to pass from the right ventricle to the left, bypassing the lungs. This in turn causes low oxygen levels. Doctors treated a pregnant woman with this syndrome with nitric oxide when her blood oxygen fell dangerously low. Nitric oxide raised her oxygen levels and lowered her pulmonary blood pressure.

Health aspects, Care and treatment, Hypoxia, Anoxia, Nitric oxide, Pulmonary hypertension

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Unstable angina during pregnancy in two patients with premature coronary atherosclerosis and aortic stenosis in association with familial hypercholesterolemia

Article Abstract:

Researchers describe the cases of two women who developed severe chest pain during pregnancy. Both had a history of high blood cholesterol and both received a coronary bypass after the pregnancy was over. Coronary artery disease is very rare in women of reproductive age.

Case studies, Coronary heart disease, Familial diseases

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Maternal and fetal outcomes of subsequent pregnancies in women with peripartum cardiomyopathy

Article Abstract:

Women with a history of peripartum cardiomyopathy who become pregnant have a high risk of heart failure and death. Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a heart disease that occurs during pregnancy or in the postpartum period. Most women recover partially or completely.

Prognosis, Cardiomyopathy, Myocardial diseases, Pregnancy, Complications of, Pregnancy complications

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