RESUMO
Se presenta y discute el caso de una paciente de 39 años de edad, en embarazo, quien consultó el 29/07/2010, hacia la semana 28 de la gestación, por dolor en el hemiabdomen superior de 20 días de evolución. Entre sus antecedentes de importancia tenía los de una comunicación interauricular tipo ostium secundum, corregida quirúrgicamente el 20/07/2009, y prolapso leve de la válvula mitral. A su ingreso al hospital se le encontró actividad uterina, por la que había estado hospitalizada durante 13 días en otra institución en la que le administraron medicamentos para útero-inhibición y maduración pulmonar fetal; se le diagnosticaron además diabetes gestacional e hidropesía fetal no inmune. Evolucionó tórpidamente con irritabilidad uterina, dolor abdominal, taquicardia y taquipnea, y al tercer día de estancia en la unidad de cuidado intensivo tuvo parto vaginal difícil, que requirió el uso de fórceps; posterior al alumbramiento presentó dolor lumbar y colapso hemodinámico que obligaron a la administración de tratamiento vasopresor con norepinefrina y vasopresina; sin embargo, siguió acidótica e hipotensa, con tendencia a la bradicardia, y finalmente falleció.
We present the case of a 39-year-old woman who came to Hospital Universitario San Vicente de Paúl (HUSVP), in Medellín, Colombia, on July 29, 2010, around the 28th week of her first pregnancy, because of upper abdominal pain during the last 20 days. She had suffered from an ostium secundum atrial sept deffect that was surgically corrected on July 20, 2009. A mild prolapse of the mitral valve was also present. On admission, she was found to have uterine activity for which she had been treated with different drugs, during 13 days, at another institution; medication to induce fetal lung maturation had also been administered. During her hospital stay diagnoses of gestational diabetes and non-immune fetal hydrops were made. At HUSVP she continued to have uterine irritability and abdominal pain, and developed tachycardia and tachypnea. On the third day of stay in the ICU she had a difficult vaginal delivery requiring the use of forceps. After childbirth, she experienced pain in the back and hemodynamic collapse. Despite vasopressor treatment with norepinephrine and vasopressin, she remained acidotic, hypotensive and bracycardic, and died.
