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Reflexiones médicas a propósito de un caso de tromboembolia pulmonar en el embarazoKeywords: pregnancy, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary venous thromboembolic disease, mexico. Abstract: 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.
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