Antiinfective prophylaxis is indicated for a pregnant woman with a history of mitral valve stenosis related to rheumatic heart disease because the woman is at risk of developing:
a. Hypertension.
b. Upper respiratory infections.
c. Postpartum infection.
d. Bacterial endocarditis.
D
Because of vegetations on the leaflets of the mitral valve and the increased demands of pregnancy, the woman is at greater risk of bacterial endocarditis.
Pulmonary hypertension may occur with mitral valve stenosis, but antiinfective medications will not prevent it from occurring.
Women are not put on prophylactic antibiotics to prevent upper respiratory infections.
Women with cardiac problems must be observed for possible infections during the postpar-tum period, but are not given prophylactic antibiotics to prevent them.
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