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  • Title: Closed Mitral Commissurotomy During Pregnancy in East Africa.
    Author: Kramer R, Quinn R, Odera A, Groom R, Boulanger N, Gunnoe E, White R.
    Journal: Ann Thorac Surg; 2016 Nov; 102(5):e419-e420. PubMed ID: 27772597.
    Abstract:
    Cardiac surgeons traveling to East Africa on humanitarian surgical missions treat a large number of people of all ages with rheumatic heart disease. A patient with severe mitral stenosis with pulmonary edema in the second trimester of pregnancy was treated successfully with closed mitral commissurotomy in a hospital in rural Kenya. An operation from the late 1940s may regain prominence more than 70 years later in areas of the world with a high incidence of rheumatic heart disease and limited cardiology and cardiac surgery resources.
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