Cardiac surgery during pregnancy.

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In addition to protective perinatal procedures, instances occur during pregnancy when urgent or emergency surgery becomes unavoidable due to life-threatening cardiac decompensation. In patients with mitral stenosis, which is the case in most scenarios, closed mitral valvulotomy is life-saving and offers low fetomaternal risk, as a viable, efficient and practical alternative to percutaneous mitral balloon commissurotomy. When cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) becomes mandatory, the shortest possible periods of mildly hypothermic or normothermic CPB with a strategy of high flow-high pressure perfusion should be followed.

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