Severe Subvalvular Aortic Stenosis in a Pregnant Woman.

Heart Views

Department of Adult Cardiology, Heart Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.

Published: May 2022

A 35-year-old pregnant female in her second trimester presented with heart failure manifestations with evidence of very severe fixed left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. The peak systolic gradient was 132 mmHg, which is the highest reported in the literature, secondary to congenital subaortic membrane. Similar case reports that we could find in the literature were reviewed to highlight the importance of such anomaly.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9231546PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/heartviews.heartviews_26_22DOI Listing

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