Anesthesia with etomidate and remifentanil for cesarean section in severe peripartum cardiomyopathy

Abstract

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.