Anesthesia with etomidate and remifentanil for cesarean section in severe peripartum cardiomyopathy
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We report a 19 years old patient, at 32 weeks of gestation, with severe peripartum cardiomyopathy, in heart failure and pulmonary edema. General anesthesia was induced with etomidate and maintained with remifentanil infusion safely, without any adverse outcome on mother or newborn.
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captopril, carvedilol, cefixime, cisatracurium, etomidate, furosemide, glyceryl trinitrate, hydralazine, isosorbide dinitrate, low molecular weight heparin, methyldopa, midazolam, morphine sulfate, neostigmine, remifentanil, spironolactone, warfarin, absence of side effects, adult, anesthesia induction, aorta valve regurgitation, article, artificial ventilation, cardiomyopathy, case report, cesarean section, coughing, disease severity, drug dose increase, dyspnea, endotracheal intubation, female, fever, general anesthesia, gestation period, heart failure, heart left ventricle ejection fraction, heart palpitation, hospital admission, hospital discharge, human, hypertension, intensive care unit, lung edema, mitral valve regurgitation, obstetric anesthesia, postoperative period, transthoracic echocardiography, tricuspid valve regurgitation