• A & A case reports · Jun 2015

    Case Reports

    Cesarean Delivery in a Parturient with Left Ventricular Noncompaction Complicated by Acute Pulmonary Hypertension After Methylergonovine Administration for Postpartum Hemorrhage.

    • Yelena Spitzer, Menachem M Weiner, and Yaakov Beilin.
    • From the Department of Anesthesiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
    • A A Case Rep. 2015 Jun 15; 4 (12): 166-8.

    AbstractLeft ventricular noncompaction is a rare congenital cardiomyopathy that is an arrest in the normal process of cardiac compaction, resulting in the development of multiple prominent trabeculations in the left ventricle. We report a case of a parturient with left ventricular noncompaction causing decompensated heart failure who underwent cesarean delivery that was complicated by an acute pulmonary hypertensive crisis.

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