%0 Journal Article %T Reflexiones m¨¦dicas a prop¨®sito de un caso de tromboembolia pulmonar en el embarazo %A Santos-Mart¨ªnez %A Luis-Efren %A Murillo %A Carla %A Rodr¨ªguez %A Armando %A Puente %A Miguel %A Miranda %A Teresa %A Contreras %A Milci %A Guevara %A Pedro %A Rosado-Bosque %A Carolina %A Rojas %A Gerardo %A Pulido %A Tom¨¢s %A Sandoval %A Julio %A Zamora %A Karina %A Baranda %A Francisco %J Archivos de cardiolog¨ªa de M¨¦xico %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X maternal mortality is still high in the world. pulmonary thromboembolism as a cause of death is the second in developed countries. the frequency of reported events in latin-american is 0.6%, which contrasts with that reported for developed countries (14.9%). this difference may be related to information bias. a review of the current information about this topic is presented, and we report a short case of a pregnant woman who presented pulmonary thromboembolism event at 30 weeks of pregnancy. appropriate therapy allowed maternal and fetal survival. %K pregnancy %K pulmonary embolism %K pulmonary venous thromboembolic disease %K mexico. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1405-99402010000400010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en