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Five twin pregnant women were studied during treatment of preterm labor with ritodrine. Maternal pulmonary capillary pressure (PCP) and cardiac function were measured by noninvasive simultaneous recordings of the indirect carotid pulse, electrocardiography, phonocardiography, and M-mode echocardiography. Pulmonary capillary pressure significantly increased from the control value of 9 +/- 3.0 to 18 +/- 2.2 mmHg during the infusion period of therapy. Cardiac index and preejection period to left ventricular ejection time ratio were also increased during treatment with ritodrine. Our findings suggest that noninvasive measurement of PCP and cardiac function may be useful in monitoring twin pregnancies that develop cardiovascular side effects during tocolytic therapy.

Klinefelter's syndrome is a rare entity. Even rarer is an anomalous origin of the Left Main Coronary Artery. For both conditions to occur in the same patient is hence exceedingly rare. Reported here is a never previously reported case of a coronary congenital anomaly in a patient with Klinefelter's syndrome together with the proper angiographic approach.

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