Medical reflections on a case of pulmonary thromboembolism in pregnancy

Maternal mortality is still high in the world. Pulmonary thromboembolism as a cause of death is the second in developed countries. The frequency of reported events in Latin-American is 0.6%, which contrasts with that reported for developed countries (14.9%). This difference may be related to informa...

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Published in:Archivos de cardiología de México 2010-10, Vol.80 (4), p.255-260
Main Authors: Santos-Martínez, Luis Efrén, Murillo, Carla, Rodríguez, Armando, Puente, Miguel, Miranda, Teresa, Contreras, Milci, Guevara, Pedro, Rosado-Bosque, Carolina, Rojas, Gerardo, Pulido, Tomás, Sandoval, Julio, Zamora, Karina, Baranda, Francisco
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Subjects:
Adolescent
Female
Humans
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications, Hematologic - diagnosis
Pregnancy Complications, Hematologic - drug therapy
Pulmonary Embolism - diagnosis
Pulmonary Embolism - drug therapy
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Summary:Maternal mortality is still high in the world. Pulmonary thromboembolism as a cause of death is the second in developed countries. The frequency of reported events in Latin-American is 0.6%, which contrasts with that reported for developed countries (14.9%). This difference may be related to information bias. A review of the current information about this topic is presented, and we report a short case of a pregnant woman who presented pulmonary thromboembolism event at 30 weeks of pregnancy. Appropriate therapy allowed maternal and fetal survival.
ISSN:1405-9940