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Case Report: Anaesthesia for Marfan’s Syndrome
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A 35 year-old female with Marfan’s Syndrome, presented for medical termination of pregnancy at 8 weeks’ gestation. She had no family history of Marfan’s. Despite having undergone dental work for teeth overcrowding, her first medical presentation was with severe aortic regurgitation and cardiac failure in 2003. At that time she underwent urgent aortic valve and aortic root replacement. She has been followed up bi-annually, relatively uneventfully, at cardiac clinic. She is well controlled on furosemide and a beta-blocker, Carvedilol. She had no symptoms of congestive cardiac failure (CCF) and was graded as NYHA class 2. She is also taking warfarin and haematinics.
