Benefit of transesophageal echocardiography monitoring during cesarean section in a patient with complete atrioventricular canal defect

• Main Authors: Amarpreet Gill (Author), Dinesh Garg (Author), Rajesh Chand Arya (Author), Sunil Katyal (Author), Gurpreet Gill (Author), Sunil Juneja (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Anesthesia is a challenge in patients with congenital heart disease, especially during pregnancy and surgical delivery. A 23-year-old with a 34-week gestation, primigravida with atrioventricular (AV) canal defect was scheduled for a cesarean section. Preoperative transthoracic echocardiography (TTE)...